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The official Jupyter Conference
Aug 21-22, 2018: Training
Aug 22-24, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Elizabeth Wickes

Elizabeth Wickes
Lecturer, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Elizabeth Wickes is a lecturer at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, where she teaches foundational programming and information technology courses. Previously, Elizabeth was a data curation specialist for the Research Data Service at the University Library of the University of Illinois and the curation manager for Wolfram|Alpha. She currently co-organizes the Champaign-Urbana Python user group, has been a Carpentries instructor since 2015 and a trainer since 2017, and is an elected member of the Carpentries executive council for 2018.

Sessions

2:40pm–3:20pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Reproducible education: What teaching can learn from open science practices
Documentation, Reproducible research and open science, Training and education
 Location: Beekman/Sutton North Level: Non-technical
Elizabeth Wickes (School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
As practitioners of open science begin to migrate their educational material into pubic repositories, many of their common practices and platforms can be used to streamline the instruction material development process. Elizabeth Wickes explains how open science practices can be used in an educational context and why they are best facilitated by tools like the Jupyter Notebook. Read more.