[open-science] X-Post: Open source software for reproducible research: Session next week in NYC - RSVP today!

Tue Oct 24 13:13:10 UTC 2017

If you are in New York City next week, we have a few spots left for an
interactive session on open source software for reproducible research.

*RSVP:* https://ti.to/codeforscience/stencila-feedback-session-at-
sloan-foundation
<https://ti.to/codeforscience/stencila-feedback-session-at-sloan-foundation>
 Help Stencila to reinvent spreadsheets for reproducible research.

*When:* Friday, November 3rd, 2017 - 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

With a Happy Hour following the event at Maggie's Place
<https://www.maggiesnyc.com/>, 21 East 47th Street
<https://maps.google.com/?q=21+East+47th+Street&entry=gmail&source=g> at
Madison Ave

*Where:* Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 630 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2200, New
York, NY, 10111
<https://maps.google.com/?q=630+Fifth+Avenue,+Suite+2200,+New+York,+NY,+10111&entry=gmail&source=g>

*Questions:* daniellecrobinson at gmail.com

Spreadsheets are widely used in all fields of research - for everything
from data entry to simulation modelling. But spreadsheets can be error
prone and don’t fit well into a reproducible workflow.

Stencila <https://stenci.la/> is trying to make reproducible research more
widespread by making it more accessible. Stencila Sheets provide a familiar
spreadsheet interface but are built from the ground up to leverage the
power of languages like R, Python, and SQL, and with reproducibility at
their core. We want to show you what we are building, but we are also
looking for the opinions, experiences, and ideas of people who work with
data across various research domains.

   - What are the great things about spreadsheets? Why are they used by so
   many researchers?
   - What problems do spreadsheets have? What are the challenges to making
   them more reproducible?
   - If you could start over, what would you change about spreadsheets?
   Which features of conventional spreadsheet software would you change? What
   would you add? What would you take away?

Join us to share your ideas and help shape Stencila Sheets... and the
future of reproducible research!

Stencila is an open source project funded by a grant from the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation <https://sloan.org/>, under the umbrella of the
Oregon-based non-profit Code for Science & Society
<https://ti.to/codeforscience/codeforscience.org>.
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