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:...
Thanks to everyone who expressed a preference for days and times to meet. By far the most popular slot was 4pm (UK time) on Mondays, and I’ve arbitrarily picked the 2nd in the month, so the first of these will be 4pm BST (3pm UTC), Monday 13 September. As a reminder, we will be using the Lean Coffee format to decide the agenda on the day: I’ll open a board for suggestions the week before, and then items to discuss will be voted on at the start of the meeting by the people there: the top few will get a 10ish minute timeslot for discussion....
We had our second network meeting this week and had a really productive discussion about ways for staying in touch and sharing knowledge, and how to run future meetings. Read on for more! ...
10 May 2021 saw the first meeting of the GLAM Data Science Network. It was great to see a mix of people from different backgrounds, ranging from computer science to more humanities subjects. This will make a good base for the Network, as it opened up room for some interesting discussion. Jez was able to pose some interesting prompts during this meeting, which led us to having some main ideas about what we would hope to see from this Network:...