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Open Source Software in Science: Beyond the Code

Fernando Perez
October 17, 2019

Open Source Software in Science: Beyond the Code

A shorter (and updated with some new ideas) version of my recent talk about organizational aspects of scientific open source software development, presented at the Open Science Day at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Co-authored with Lindsey Heagy (https://lindseyjh.ca).

Video of the presentation: https://youtu.be/sQBLDURu8-4

Fernando Perez

October 17, 2019
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  1. A language agnostic protocol u a l j i ~100

    different kernels: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels
  2. More than software, woven into science Services and content: impact

    Software Standards and Protocols: ecosystem Community: innovation & resiliency People Ideas Tools Stories
  3. OSS supports CORE Science* Collaborative Open Reproducible Extensible * With

    a nod to the FAIR principles of open data Lindsey Heagy
  4. Multiple stakeholders, team effort ❖ Academic scientists ❖ Educators ❖

    Industry ❖ Government ❖ Media/journalism ❖ 1500+ community volunteers!
  5. Jupyter meets the Earth: newly funded NSF grant - $2M/3y

    • Climate data analysis • Hydrology • Geophysics • Data discovery • Interactivity • Cloud/HPC infrastructure Fernando Perez Joe Hamman Laurel Larsen Kevin Paul Lindsey Heagy Chris Holdgraf Yuvi Panda Research use-cases Tech Developments
  6. Dimensions of Openness ❖ Open source code ❖ Open (FAIR)

    data ❖ Open access publications & artifacts ❖ Open standards: interoperability (even with proprietary tools) ❖ Open community: all welcome (and mean it!) ❖ …
  7. mybinder.org: shareable reproducibility github.com/freeman-lab Explicit Dependencies + + Origins: Jeremy

    Freeman’s lab at Janelia farm. That “incentives" business… !key contributor! Tim Head @betatim
  8. JupyterLab: a grand unified theory of Jupyter Huge Team Effort!

    C. Colbert, S. Corlay, A. Darian, B. Granger, J. Grout, P. Ivanov, I. Rose, S. Silvester, C. Willing, J. Zosa-Forde …
  9. JupyterLab is extensible: FlyBrainLab An Interactive Computing Platform for the

    Fly Brain BIONET Group, Columbia University http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu Aurel A. Lazar (PI) Tingkai Liu Mehmet K. Turkcan Chung-Heng Yeh Yiyin Zhou http://fruitflybrain.org
  10. Teaching with Programmable Notebooks Launched in September, NOTO (http:// noto.epfl.ch),

    EPFL's new JupyterLab platform for education, allows teachers and students to create and share programmable notebooks. https://actu.epfl.ch/news/teaching-with-online-programmable-notebooks
  11. Data 8: Foundations of Data Science Cathryn Carson Ani Adhikari

    John De Nero + Data 100, Prob 140, Data 102, … + a large team!
  12. Contrasts in culture and incentives Open Source Academia Credit Distributed

    PI & hierarchy Output/artifacts Continuous & Project-specific Discrete papers Collaborators Fluid: professionals, volunteers, … Structured, funding-dependent Governance/ decision making Open, community based Top-down, PI Authorship Fluid, roles can evolve, no clear “first/ senior” author Need to say more? Peer review Continuous, open, pervasive, friendly The opposite Value metric Utility, need, impact “Novel and transformative”
  13. Catastrophic Success: an economic problem (2015 data) https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989 ❖ MathWorks:

    4,000+ employees ❖ Wolfram: 800 employees ❖ IDL/Harris: 17,000 employees
  14. Thank you (Bay Area team) Current (Berkeley, LBNL, Bloomberg) Stacey

    Dorton, Lindsey Heagy, Chris Holdgraf, Yuvi Panda, Ryan Lovett, Shreyas Cholia, Shane Canon, Rollin Thomas, Jason Grout Former Berkeley Min Ragan-Kelley, Paul Ivanov, Thomas Kluyver, M Pacer, Matthias Bussonnier, Jessica Hamrick, Ian Rose, Jamie Whitacre.
  15. ❖ Economic incentives & sustainability ❖ Governance models ❖ Roles

    and professional career paths ❖ Multi-stakeholder organizations Scientific OSS at scale: complex challenges
  16. ❖ Economic incentives & sustainability ❖ Governance models ❖ Roles

    and professional career paths ❖ Multi-stakeholder organizations Scientific OSS at scale: complex challenges No scientist is trained for any of this!! Thank You!