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Introductions! #77

Open wkearn opened 7 years ago

wkearn commented 7 years ago

This is a place to say hi and tell us a little bit about yourself, whether you're a seasoned Study Grouper or a newcomer. We'd particularly like to know what kinds of things you work on, what kinds of tools you use to do your work, and what kinds of open science practices you'd like to get better at.

I'm Will, and I'm a PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environment. I study coastal wetlands, and I use a lot of time-series data from sensors that I deploy in salt marshes. I do almost all of my data analysis in Julia, and I'm a big fan of pandoc for writing papers and emacs for text editing.

Two things I'd like to learn more about are archiving heterogeneous but interconnected data sets and data visualization tools and best practices.

tomhohenstein commented 7 years ago

Hello!

My name is Tom Hohenstein and I am a librarian here at BU. My work focuses on helping researchers with data management (including writing data management plans for grant applications) and creating services to support the different phases of the data life cycle.

I'm always interested in learning more about python and unix 😄

HarryFengYX commented 6 years ago

Hi, I am Yinxuan. I am a freshman, who occasionally codes, don't really know much about coding, but I want to learn. I major in BME.

I wrote minor programs like video player, audio player, diary management and creation, time management and such. I am working on a big program which can organically control the small programs, being able to execute and understand basic programs, and build larger modules on its own. It is not finished.

I didn't work with anyone else before. I hope that I can fit in the group, learn from others, and work with other.

tomhohenstein commented 6 years ago

Hi Alex,

Sorry for the delayed reply - it has been a hectic few weeks. This group hasn't been as active as we'd like this semester but we are always open to scheduling new events. Do you have any ideas / suggestions for potential topics?

It would be great to get things moving again!

-Tom

asoplata commented 6 years ago

Hey y'all,

I'm a 6th (ugh) year grad student in Computational Neuroscience at BU. The lab I work with has developed a very powerful neural simulator for Matlab over at https://github.com/dynasim/dynasim that has built-in integration with the SCC cluster. I simulate Hodgkin-Huxley neurons to try to understand the role of the thalamus and cortex in anesthesia, sleep, and other phenomena; most of our group (http://cogrhythms.bu.edu/nd/) works on analysis and modeling of brain oscillations for various behaviors. We're generally very open with our work and our group cares very much about open (source) science, provenance, etc. Most of our work in Matlab, but many of us have some or intermediate experience in other things like Python, C++, and web dev. I personally would rather be using Python since Matlab is proprietary, but we already have a well-used and large codebase.

Tools-wise, I'm also a huge fan of Pandoc and especially Emacs' Org-mode! Though my heart lies with Vim and lately I've been using Spacemacs to get the power of both.

Nice to meet y'all! I saw an ad for this group in the Sci & Engr Library and was very intrigued. I've been trying to keep up with what's happening in Open Science (specifically Open Code for science), but honestly there's so much happening so fast, it's almost impossible to keep up with!

tomhohenstein commented 6 years ago

org-mode!!! @asoplata thank you for posting. If you're ever interested in leading a discussion on your work or the greatness of emacs - we'd be happy to help facilitate.

Also, a group (including @wkearn) is organizing an event at MIT on Dec. 19 on using git and github as well as selecting a license for your open source project. I'll post more details when I have them.

asoplata commented 6 years ago

  1. I'm planning on doing a similar intro to Git and GitHub but oriented towards BU grad students in the Computational Neuroscience Student Organization here (http://cns.bu.edu/~cnso/about.html). Part of the workshop's point is to um build a new website using GitHub, heh. If it helps, this talk is the presentation with the most plain-english explanation of Git I've found.

  2. For licensing, this website is also a great plain-speak explanation of different FOSS licenses. I've talked to the BU Office of Technology Development and they seem 100% supportive of BU-made software projects being licensed as free and open source.

tomhohenstein commented 6 years ago

@asoplata - if you'd like us to help do outreach for your workshop on git and github, just say the word. And if you're looking for space, I can find some in the library that we've used for workshops in the past (there are tables, chairs, a big screen, and everything is on wheels).

alexpereira commented 6 years ago

Hi, I am Alex.

I am an undergrad CS student at MET and this is my first semester here at BU. I have been coding for a couple of years now. I can program in a few languages, but lately, I have been mostly using JavaScript to build web applications.

HMPrince commented 6 years ago

Dear All, I am Husni Mobarak Prince, a postgraduate student of Universiti Putra Malaysia in the field of Remote Sensing and GIS. I am very much interested in the geospatial field using open source Python platform. But, I am afraid of python language basically when I get an error and can't understand where and why it is happening and what step will help me to solve. I read many tutorials related to error but couldn't learn how to solve it coz this thing is not defined that how to make solve and where to write correct way. Now, working on geospatial Landsat data to do classification and assessment. Hope a better support from you guys.

Fred-Macdo commented 5 years ago

Hello all,

Graduate student in the Met CS Data Anayltics program here and I am very much interested in data science techniques, python and r coding and geospatial data science including land cover classification and wildfire risk assessment. I have been coding in Python for a few years now and am always looking to learn more about what people are doing in the geospatial and data science spaces. Currently I work at the National Fire Protection Association as a data scientist.

wkearn commented 5 years ago

Hey, @Fred-Macdo! The Study Group has languished as a lot of the organizers (including myself) have moved on from BU, but if you're interested in geospatial data, remote sensing etc., you should get in touch with some folks in the Dept. of Earth and Environment like @ceholden.

Fred-Macdo commented 5 years ago

Thanks Will @wkearn! To @ceholden I definitely appreciate the random forest classification tutorial you posted and have used some of that code to help some of my work. I am working with my team here at work to create a holistic wildfire risk assessment tool and land cover classification is a big part of that. I'll be on campus this semester on Monday evenings if you're around; i'd love to chat about the projects you're working on in your PhD program as well!