This is the first module in the Collaboration topic; the relevant slack channel is here.

A major theme of this course is the development of practical tools for data science and analysis. To provide some context for those tools and to give a sense of data science outside of academia (in the “real world”), this content was developed by Sandy Griffith and Elizabeth Sweeney, both of whom are quantitative scientists at Flatiron Health.

Some slides

The slides Sandy and Elizabeth used in their presentation are publicly available here.

Other materials

In the course of their presentation, Sandy and Elizabeth referred to several additional resources:

  • Learning to “give away your legos” gives a perspective on how to work collaboratively and avoid anxiety as others work on (and take over) your projects
  • The “blameless postmortem” shifts emphasis for project failure from individual actions to the system that made failure possible
  • Using Phabricator makes it easier to provide specific, Google-doc-like comments on code, and uses an interface familiar to users of Git and GitHub