Lorena A. Barba group

twitter I'm at the in-person meeting of the Supercomputing Conference Chairs, in Dallas, TX—my first involvement as Reproducibility Chair for #SC19 View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Jupyter-based courses in Open edX: Authoring and grading with notebooks

On May 30th, Prof. Barba presented at the Open edX Conference, together with Miguel Amigot II, CTO of IBL Education, the recent work to integrate Jupyter with the Open edX platform. The talk showcased two new Open edX extensions (XBlocks): one for pulling content into a course from any public Jupyter notebook (from its URL),... Continue »

twitter I'm in an Acela train from DC to NY, on my way to Stony Brook to give a talk tomorrow, hosted by @Michael_Zingale https://t.co/BvbYO3lAPk View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Lorena Barba interviewed at O'Reilly JupyterCon 2017

Highlights How I got started using Jupyter for teaching: I met Fernando Perez at a workshop, where he gave a talk about IPython notebooks, and immediately I knew I wanted to use this in my classes. I have used them in my classes ever since. First, in my Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD Python) at Boston... Continue »

twitter Delighted that finally @gwengineering has joined @swcarpentry with a Silver membership! We’ll get all the engineers computing FTW ???? View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Tutorial for high-school students at GW

PhD student Natalia Clementi and Prof. Barba taught a 3-hour tutorial for high-school students for the Caminos Al Futuro program of the GW Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute. It was a hands-on tutorial titled "Data Science for a Better World," and it guided the students through the basics of using Python with data. The students, who had never... Continue »

twitter “Can We Make Online Discussions Suck Less?”—asks @hickstro: https://t.co/qD1OoG8gtP A taste for the trials of teaching online thoughtfully. View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Nature TechBlog: My digital toolbox

Jeffrey Perkel, Technology Editor for Nature, interviewed Prof. Lorena A. Barba about her research group's reproducibility practices and the digital tools that enable them. She talked about the group's computational research interests, their avant-garde use of digital tools and repositories to create "repro-packs," and how these allow her to share research figures freely even when part... Continue »

twitter RT @mikamckinnon: ...can we start recognizing some of these astonishing women scientists before they die, please? https://t.co/92fXrVeyAr 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 »

twitter Via @iblstudios—Lorena Barba, Author of the Numerical Methods MOOC, Awarded in Berkeley For Her Work on Open Science https://t.co/VxUn9CTkwh 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 »