'Other' Suggestions

[anna-deasey]

This issue is for 'other' suggestions

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[anna-deasey]

Does anyone have any real-life data-sets to donate for use in tutorials for the coding club? or have any suggestions of data to use?

Brad: I'm happy to donate my fig wasp data set, which consists of species abundances and traits (egg loads, body measurements). Anyone is of course free to fork the repository and use it, but it's a fairly straightforward data set for plotting things.

John: I just added a short while ago a couple of not too sciencey data sets that I think could be interesting / fun as toy data sets. See here

Matt: I have some very basic time series data (macroeconomic data from Cambodia) which I can put up, and soon I should have a much larger socioeconomic data set which, although not biological, should provide plenty of opportunities for practising stuff with. I do have some other biological data sets but they don't belong to me so I'll need to check with the owners before making them available

[anna-deasey]

Anyone have any ideas how to monitor and evaluate the success of coding club? ...... in terms of participation, increased statistical knowledge and abilities, increased collaboration....for example?

GitHub insights? google analytics? questionnaires?

Rose: I know a lot about google analytics.

[anna-deasey]

Is anybody interested in being part of an SCC working group on data visualisation and plotting in R?
we could use it to share ideas, ask for advice, try new things.....all relating to data visualisation

Adam: I'd be interested in a working group on data visualisation. I'm always looking for new ways to present my data.

[anna-deasey]

Is anyone interested in 3D printing? I don't know anything about this, but I think it would be cool to be involved with the Uni Stirling Maker Space people and equipment

Rose: Definitely! I've sent an enquiry about this. I think it would be excellent for scanning specimens, scaling them up and printing larger models.

[anna-deasey]

Is anybody interested in presenting research posters via an interactive screen? for example, this was an option offered by the British Ecological Society for this years conference meeting.
I've never used one, but I imagine it could be a really cool way of presenting research.
Maybe we can persuade the dept. to buy or rent an interactive screen?

Rose: does this mean the poster becomes more like a website? with parts that do different things? Sounds ace!

[anna-deasey]

Is anybody any good at / interested in designing posters?
We could design a poster to promote the Coding Club and semin[r] around the dept/uni.
If we can do this in a reproducible way, maybe in rmarkdown slides, all the better for future use

Rose: I've done loads of graphic design. Happy to help :)

Matt: Great idea, but I'm afraid design is NOT one of my strengths...

[rosemckeon]

Would it be helpful to put a space on here where people can share useful resources like tutorials/articles/documentation?

[bradduthie]

@rozeykex Maybe these could be new/separate repositories uploaded onto StirlingCodingClub? E.g., if anyone wants to add to the intro_to_GitHub repository, they can just push new files to it? I'm not sure if this would send me a pull request, or if it's open to all 'owners' of StirlingCodingClub (i.e., everyone) to push to?

[rosemckeon]

@bradduthie Aye that could work. I guess the repo could just be a selection of markdown files we can all add links to? We can test out write permissions on the repos and see if it would work ok.

[rosemckeon]

@bradduthie I've found a setting for the default repository permissions for the group. At the moment everybody has read permission for any repository we add to the group. Shall I update it so everyone can always write?

[rosemckeon]

@bradduthie another way to do it would be to set up teams within the study group. People can sign up to teams they want to be a part of and different teams could manage different repositories.

[bradduthie]

@rozeykex Allowing everyone to write seems fine -- with so many group members, any accidental loss to a repository should be recoverable through someone's local machine.

[adamaki]

Is anyone interested in 3D printing? I don't know anything about this, but I think it would be cool to be involved with the Uni Stirling Maker Space people and equipment

Rose: Definitely! I've sent an enquiry about this. I think it would be excellent for scanning specimens, scaling them up and printing larger models.

I looked into 3D printing a few months ago and emailed the Maker Space but so far I haven't had a response. I'm guessing as it's run by students that they've been away for the summer! I'd be interested if anyone has any more information beyond what's on the website.

[anna-deasey]

Is anyone interested in 3D printing? I don't know anything about this, but I think it would be cool to be involved with the Uni Stirling Maker Space people and equipment
Rose: Definitely! I've sent an enquiry about this. I think it would be excellent for scanning specimens, scaling them up and printing larger models.

I looked into 3D printing a few months ago and emailed the Maker Space but so far I haven't had a response. I'm guessing as it's run by students that they've been away for the summer! I'd be interested if anyone has any more information beyond what's on the website.

@rozeykex @adamaki - I've sent an email too, hopefully they'll get back to one of us! i did meet with a lady from the library over the summer and she showed me around the equipment, and said the staff were still being trained how to use it all.

[mattnuttall00]

I'm wondering where the best place for people to post coding/stats questions is. Should people just create a new issue, or will that mean that we end up with hundreds of issues which may be difficult to manage? Also perhaps we should have a 'guide to asking good questions' such as the one here

[rosemckeon]

Is anyone interested in 3D printing? I don't know anything about this, but I think it would be cool to be involved with the Uni Stirling Maker Space people and equipment
Rose: Definitely! I've sent an enquiry about this. I think it would be excellent for scanning specimens, scaling them up and printing larger models.

I looked into 3D printing a few months ago and emailed the Maker Space but so far I haven't had a response. I'm guessing as it's run by students that they've been away for the summer! I'd be interested if anyone has any more information beyond what's on the website.

@rozeykex @adamaki - I've sent an email too, hopefully they'll get back to one of us! i did meet with a lady from the library over the summer and she showed me around the equipment, and said the staff were still being trained how to use it all.

I sent an email too, as directed by the website, but it's been a week or so now and still no answer. I think I'll go ask someone in person next time I'm in the library. I know Kevin Petrie has used it to make some equipment for our lab practicals very recently, so it must be up and running.

[rosemckeon]

I'm wondering where the best place for people to post coding/stats questions is. Should people just create a new issue, or will that mean that we end up with hundreds of issues which may be difficult to manage? Also perhaps we should have a 'guide to asking good questions' such as the one here

@mattnuttall00 I think the stackoverflow way to ask questions is great practice. I guess the issues board would work OK for a small volume of questions. We could try it - unless anyone has a different suggestion -and see if it gets out of hand? I think a new issue per question is the best way to keep threads simple.

[rosemckeon]

@rozeykex Allowing everyone to write seems fine -- with so many group members, any accidental loss to a repository should be recoverable through someone's local machine.

@bradduthie and everyone, I've updated that setting now so we can all write to all SCC repositories.

[anna-deasey]

Is anyone interested in 3D printing? I don't know anything about this, but I think it would be cool to be involved with the Uni Stirling Maker Space people and equipment
Rose: Definitely! I've sent an enquiry about this. I think it would be excellent for scanning specimens, scaling them up and printing larger models.

I looked into 3D printing a few months ago and emailed the Maker Space but so far I haven't had a response. I'm guessing as it's run by students that they've been away for the summer! I'd be interested if anyone has any more information beyond what's on the website.

@rozeykex @adamaki - I've sent an email too, hopefully they'll get back to one of us! i did meet with a lady from the library over the summer and she showed me around the equipment, and said the staff were still being trained how to use it all.

@rozeykex @adamaki - I emailed again and got this reply:
"Thanks for registering your interest in our maker space volunteer program. We will be running a training session next Wednesday 3rd October at 14:00 in the maker space. We will talk about the concept of the space, go through the equipment on offer and talk a bit about the role of the volunteer. We would be very happy if you could attend.
Caroline Kemlo
Service Desk Analyst
Information Services
T: (01786) 467250
E: [email protected]
f: https://www.facebook.com/stirlinglibrary
t: @isstirling"

I've said I would like to go, and asked if more people can. I'll let you know when I get a reply.

Adam: I had a similar email from IS as well but the date was 10th October. I guess they are running multiple sessions due to high demand.