Talks and presentations
See a map of all the places I've given a talk!
July 10, 2019
Keynote, SciPy 2019, Austin, Texas
Opening keynote at SciPy 2019, in which I discuss a wide range of issues around the work of developing and maintaining open-source software, based on our team’s ongoing mixed-method research into this topic.
February 15, 2019
Panelist, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
Panelist on the ‘Knowledge and Culture’ panel at this workshop on algorithms and big data, sponsored by a number of different departments across UCSD.
January 24, 2019
Talk, eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
In this talk, I discuss the central yet often passed over role of documentation in data science, based on several recent and ongoing studies and projects about the role and importance of documentation in software packages, datasets, analysis code, research protocols, and research teams.
January 23, 2019
Talk, eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
In this talk, I argue that there is often substantial qualitative contextual inquiry and expertise deployed in quantitative methods. Such insights are crucial to ‘cooking data with care,’ as Geoff Bowker advocated.