Well, it’s a bit later than planned, but here is a summary of our November meeting, held on Monday 8th. We had a fairly broad ranging discussion about resources for developing coding skills, and about other groups & networks we might link up with. I’ve summarised the links and resources below.
Links & resources
Book recommendations
As a bit of an icebreaker, we each mentioned one book we’d read recently:
- Defying Doomsday by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench (eds.) (and its sequel, Rebuilding Tomorrow)
- Loo Queue by Nicholas Allan
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (and sequels: Locked Tomb series)
- Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (and sequels: Broken Earth series)
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov (and many sequels…)
Developing coding skills
- Advent of Code
- The Programming Historian
- O-DATE: the Open Digital Archaeology Textbook
- Library Carpentry
- The Carpentries
- Data Carpentry lessons under development, including an image processing lesson
- FAIR Data Principles: data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reproducible
- CARE principles for indigenous data governance: Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics
- F-UJI FAIR Data Assessment Tool (FAIRsFAIR project)
- SSHOC Project - Social Science & Humanities Open Cloud
Linking up with other networks
- How to build your own AI personal assistant using Python | by M.Mirthula | Towards Data Science
- Alan Turing Institute: Humanities & Data Science interest group
- Oxford Visual Geometry Group
Follow-up
- Collect and collate information from members about
- Current knowledge and confidence levels
- What problems we would like to solve in our work
- What resources we know about and would like to share
- Encourage people to share these on a regular basis in the chat room to allow others to offer suggestions