Lorena Barba :: Lorena A. Barba Group

Outsize ovation for @sarah_guido, the chair for #SciPy2017 conference main track on “Machine Learning and AI” ???? https://t.co/B4thVNClHM View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Honorable Mention in the Open Education Awards for Excellence

Prof. Lorena Barba was nominated and received an Honorable Mention in the Open Education Awards for Excellence of the Open Education Consortium. She was among four internationally recognized educators honored, in tribute of their achievements and contributions publishing a significant body of open educational resources and demonstrating innovative open education practices. The Open Education Consortium is... Continue »

The #Jupyter killer-app status for education keeps getting better. Now, visualize code—a la @pgbovine’s… https://t.co/FtHMSdm4Zv View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Prof. Barba awarded a 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science

The 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes were announced on 15 December 2016, at the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS). They award those "working to forward the values of openness and transparency in research,” and this year went to ten researchers and educators, out of 44 nominees from eighteen disciplines... Continue »

RT @ortuist: if only someone had warned us.. https://t.co/phwB6ltdO4 View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Supercomputing Conference SC16: panel on reproducibility

Prof. Lorena Barba participating in the SC16 panel "Different Architectures, Different Times: Reproducibility and Repeatability in High Performance Computing"

Postdoc position—Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA [see PDF] https://t.co/JkRhO2dNcT View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Barbagroup reproducibility syllabus

Lorena Barba

Also published on the Medium publication "Hacker Noon." After my short piece, “A hard road to reproducibility,” appeared in Science, I received several emails and Twitter mentions asking for more specific tips—both about tools and documents we use in the group to train the team about reproducibility. In answer to popular demand, then, I have... Continue »

This is a long, LONG read, full of hyperbole—but makes some convincing criticisms of the science establishment https://t.co/k0yp8l5i1k View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Barba for SIAM CSE Vice-Chair

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) is electing new officers for 2017–2018. Prof. Lorena A. Barba was nominated for the position of Vice-Chair. Here are Barba's election statement and SIAM biography. Members of SIAG/CSE received voting instructions via email on Oct. 31. Voting is open until Dec. 2,... Continue »

RT @SciPersp: #Reproducibility: reliability & transparency only by automating every step. By @LorenaABarba https://t.co/n03jaTVnRA https://… View // Reply // Retweet // Like

The hard road to reproducibility

by Lorena A. Barba Science 07 Oct 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6308, pp. 142 DOI: 10.1126/science.354.6308.142 Early in my Ph.D. studies, my supervisor assigned me the task of running computer code written by a previous student who was graduated and gone. It was hell. I had to sort through many different versions of the code,... Continue »