LeaRning Out Loud

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Slides from my keynote at EARL Boston on contributing to the R community by learning data science ‘out loud.’

Author

Mara Averick

Published

2017-11-03

I was surprised (and delighted) when asked to give a keynote at Boston’s 2017 edition of “Enterprise Applications of the R Language”—better known as EARL1.

Though the slides are unlikely to stand on their own, I’ve included them below. We are, after all, learning out loud! A higher resolution version with working links can be found at https://bit.ly/mara-earl.

Slides

Post Script

For the 📷 POIDH2 crowd, here’s proof positive from Angela Li (now @angela@fediscience.org).

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References

Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar. 1979. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Merton, Robert K. 1942. “The Normative Structure of Science.” In The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, 267–78. University of Chicago Press (1979).
Norman, Donald A. 2002. The Design of Everyday Things. Reprint. New York, NY, USA: Basic Books, Inc.
Norman, Donald A., and Pieter Jan Stappers. 2015. “DesignX: Complex Sociotechnical Systems.” She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation 1 (2): 83–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.01.002.
Park, Dong Huk, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Zeynep Akata, Bernt Schiele, Trevor Darrell, and Marcus Rohrbach. 2016. “Attentive Explanations: Justifying Decisions and Pointing to the Evidence.” arXiv, December. http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04757.
Ross, Sydney. 1962. “Scientist: The Story of a Word.” Annals of Science 18 (2): 65–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/00033796200202722.
Traweek, Sharon. 1988. Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Wammes, Jeffrey D., Melissa E. Meade, and Myra A. Fernandes. 2016. “The Drawing Effect: Evidence for Reliable and Robust Memory Benefits in Free Recall.” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 69 (9): 1752–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1094494.

Footnotes

  1. Alas, the link to the conference site is now defunct, since its former host, Mango Solutions, was acquired by Ascent in 2020.↩︎

  2. The frequent Internet demand that there must be “pictures or it didn’t happen.”↩︎

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{averick2017,
  author = {Averick, Mara},
  title = {LeaRning {Out} {Loud}},
  date = {2017-11-03},
  url = {https://quartoand.me/talks/2017-11_learning-out-loud-earl.html},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Averick, Mara. 2017. “LeaRning Out Loud.” November 3, 2017. https://quartoand.me/talks/2017-11_learning-out-loud-earl.html.