Lorena A. Barba Group :: Professor Lorena A Barba’s research group at the George Washington University.

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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 »

Numerical MOOC: Collaborating in Open Education for CSE

Poster presented at the SIAM Conference in Computational Science and Engineering 2017, Atlanta, GA.

The course "Practical Numerical Methods with Python" launched in 2014 as an "indie" massive open online course (MOOC), simultaneous to on-campus courses at three universities. Prof. Barba... Continue »

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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 »

How to run a lab for reproducible research

Invited talk at the NSF SI2 PI Workshop, Arlington, VA (21 Feb. 2017).

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A short lecture on Open Licensing

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A lecture as part of the workshop "Essential skills for reproducible research computing," at Universidad Té... Continue »

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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 »