Yes, You Can Use Open Source

(And There's Help!)



Matt Davis

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CC-BY-SA

http://penandpants.com

@jiffyclub

jiffyclub@gmail.com

Slides: http://j.mp/1yBlzW8

Lots of Data
Synthicity

Urban Visualization and Analysis

Open Source Scientific Tools

Scientific Python
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Awesome

OSS Good Things

Not So Awesome

The Digital Divide
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Make Your Own Tools

Master Builders

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Science!

Lab skills for scientific computing

We save researchers a day a week

for the rest of their careers.

Unix shell

Git / GitHub

Python (or R)

SQL (sometimes)

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task automation

tracking and sharing

modularization

structured data

Since January 2012


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Slides: http://j.mp/1yBlzW8