Sending the Tutorial out for Feedback and Communications

Hello, World! This week I dove into a different page on DataONE’s website, called the “landing page”. It’s called this because it is the first page you arrive at when you are looking through DataONE’s repository for educational materials. This page has two main purposes: It’s a directory for all Continue reading Sending the Tutorial out for Feedback and Communications

Rewriting in HTML and Secondary Steps

Hello, World! This week I dove into the secondary steps.In other words, DataONE wants the public to be able to edit and contribute their own educational materials; however the steps that you need to follow in order to contribute to DataONE’s repository is different depending on your submission type. I Continue reading Rewriting in HTML and Secondary Steps

Week 3 – Primary Steps Continued and Serving with Jekyll

Hello, World! This week I was able to flesh out the primary steps a lot more. I found myself concentrating a lot on the overall organization of the page, and looked through GitHub to see if other repositories had “contributing.md” files from which I could draw inspiration. From the examples Continue reading Week 3 – Primary Steps Continued and Serving with Jekyll

Week 2 – Primary Steps and First Attempts at Creating with Markdown

Hello, World! This week I had a great time exploring the DataONE GitHub repository and starting on the technical tutorial. To reiterate, the main goal for Project 1 is to create a tutorial which shows how to contribute educational materials to DataONE’s Data Management Skillbuilding Hub. The tutorial would ideally Continue reading Week 2 – Primary Steps and First Attempts at Creating with Markdown

Week 1 – Explaining DataONE and Exploring GitHub

My name is Saraneh Fitzgerald, and I am the intern working on Project 1: Tools to enhance community driven data management education. This week, I flew out to California to meet my primary adviser, Megan Mach, in person. In a video-conference with Megan, my secondary adviser Dave Vieglais, Amber Budden Continue reading Week 1 – Explaining DataONE and Exploring GitHub

With a little help from my (virtual) friends

This week I spent time hanging out with Sun, Jean, Mr. McMillan and the crew. These are the names of personas, developed by the Socio-­cultural and Usability & Assessment Working Groups. They are constructs, based on researcher profiles, surveys, interviews and life experience, and they represent a broad range of Continue reading With a little help from my (virtual) friends

Human Error, the Ultimate Test

As a graduate student, Christine had spent the last several weeks working on a statistical analysis exploring the links between air pollution and heart disease. The data set she was analyzing was quite large (the biggest Christine had ever worked with) and had been pulled from a much larger dataset, Continue reading Human Error, the Ultimate Test

Week #07 : More Videos in Rough Cut Stage

I am well on my way to completing video #02 & #03.  Both are in rough cut stage and I’m confident with some tweaking will be completed before the end of my term.  Video #02 has to do with tree analysis and Video #03 has to do with a bug Continue reading Week #07 : More Videos in Rough Cut Stage

To Be, or Not To Be (an Author)

Collaborative datasets and their resulting publications can produce some truly spectacular insights. But as more voices find their way into the collective conversation, managing the social interplay between partners can result in confusion and lost time – the continual headaches that creep up all too often in collaborative work. Meredith, Continue reading To Be, or Not To Be (an Author)