Cloud Computing, Collaboration, and Communication

Getting Started with Open Environmental Data Science

Learning Goals:

• Get started sharing your science online
• Explain to students why version control and online collaboration tools are important for open science
• Learn how to use and modify text-based data files

Keywords

Earth Data Science, STEM Education

Open reproducible science makes scientific methods, data and outcomes available to everyone. That means that everyone who wants should be able to find, read, understand, and run your workflows for themselves.

Components of open science - accessible, reproducible, inclusive. Image from https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/esds/open-science/oss-for-eso-workshops

Few if any science projects are 100% open and reproducible (yet!). However, members of the open science community have developed open source tools and practices that can help you move toward that goal. You will learn about many of those tools in the Intro to Earth Data Science textbook. Don’t worry about learning all the tools at once – we’ve picked a few for you to get started with.

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Read our textbook chapter about open reproducible science.

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