Edit-a-Thon (June 4, 2019)

This edit-a-thon - June 4, 2019, 2-4pm Eastern Time - will focus on open and ethical tools for working with data, including data wrangling, data analysis, and data visualization.

RSVP

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• Rachel Starry (User:Rstarry)
• Erin Glass (User:Erinroseglass)
• Nathan Schneider (User:Ntnsndr)
• Dan Shipley (User:DanShipley)
• Chris Werry (User:Cwerry)

Agenda

• 30 min: Videoconference introduction on Jitsi
  • Etherpad notes for discussion of data tools: https://etherpad.net/p/ethicaledtech-datatools
• 1.5 hrs: Edit, coordinating on chat

Data Tools

Check out the list of Data Tools to be added, including:

• Data Wrangling
  • OpenRefine: free, open-source, desktop tool for mass data transformation - OpenRefine source code (NOTE: wiki page exists - https://ethicaledtech.info/wiki/OpenRefine)
  • Mr. Data Converter: free, open-source, browser tool for turning Excel or CSV data into web data formats like HTML, XML, and JSON (also Python dictionaries or MySQL tables) - Mr. Data Converter source code
  • Geomancer: free, open-source, browser tool for adding geographical data to a spreadsheet - Geomancer source code

• Data Analysis
  • R programming language, RStudio, and the Tidyverse packages: R is a widely used open-source language with a robust, global community of users and contributors; RStudio is a free, open-source, integrated development environment (IDE) for working with R (note: there is also a commercial version of RStudio with additional features and customer support); the Tidyverse packages are used for data manipulation, exploration, and visualization
  • SciLab: free, open-source, desktop alternative to MATLAB for statistical analysis and data visualization

• Data Visualization
  • RAWGraphs: free, open-source, browser tool for simple data visualization
  • TimelineJS: free, open-source, Knight Lab browser tool for creating interactive timelines (ethical issue: requires use of Google sheets)
  • Plotly Chart Studio: freemium browser-based tool for data visualization; also available as open-source graphing packages for use with Python, R, JavaScript, and MATLAB
  • Leaflet: open-source JavaScript package for creating interactive maps