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August 22-23, 2017: Training
August 23-25, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY

QuantEcon Open Notebook Archive

Moderated by: Trevor Lyon, Matt McKay, and Spencer Lyon

Who is this presentation for?

Scientists, researchers, economists

Prerequisite knowledge

Participants should know what the jupyter notebook is. Familiarity with other community driven knowledge acquisition sites (e.g. stackoverflow or kaggle) would help the audience members understand the aim of the project, but we should be able to convey or vision during the talk.

What you'll learn

An awareness of the QuantEcon Open Notebook Archive and (hopefully!) a desire to contribute their own work.

Description

In this talk, I will introduce and describe the QuantEcon Open Notebook Archive. This project is currently in pre-alpha stages, but we have secured funding and are actively working on design now. The goals are to release the product in early summer — in time for this conference.

The Notebook Archive is inspired by sites like [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com) and the [Stack Exchange](http://stackexchange.com) family of websites. Users will be able to upload their own notebooks, view rendered representations of notebooks uploaded by themselves and others, download notebooks they discover, and up or down vote notebooks submitted by others.

The aims of this project are:

  • Provide a novel platform for reproducible research to the economics community (or broader, but our marketing efforts are focused on economics). We plan to integrate the ability to issue digital object identifiers (DOIs) so that notebooks can become cite-able entities and have permanent web links.
  • Encourage the sharing of open source codes for doing economics. Many practitioners write highly specialized code that doesn’t naturally belong in any generic open source library, which prohibits sharing. The content of notebooks is completely open to users allowing them to share the useful tools they create while doing their work without the overhead of refactoring into a suitable form for inclusion in exiting libraries.
  • Further the community building goals the of QuantEcon organization by creating a platform in which anyone can compete to have their ideas recognized.