datacarpentry / rr-organization1

The Organization lesson for the Reproducible Science Curriculum
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bellybutton data: great example #41

Open jennybc opened 8 years ago

jennybc commented 8 years ago

Next time someone develops lesson material, this might make a fantastic worked example or lab or exercise. I'd like to eventually work it up myself but putting it here in case anyone gets to it first.

Came to my attention via @zross and @Pakillo on twitter

Data on the biodiversity of belly buttons. You would get to say "belly button" a lot. And analyze innies vs outties.

http://navels.yourwildlife.org/bbb-project/results-and-data/

Basically they did lots of things right. It's a near miss. So fixing the problems is doable, would be very educational, and have a happy ending.

You could talk about

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tracykteal commented 8 years ago

Also microbes! I definitely like this dataset.

jennybc commented 8 years ago

@tracykteal It could also work for Data Carpentry. I just put it here because I don't want to forget about it but don't go back into teaching mode 'til fall.