Today’s Prompts

1. What’s the most important next step for my DDS project?
2. What was hardest for me during the Fast Hack?

Double Diamond

Issues

• What are the key questions that you will address?
• How robust and complete is the information that you have so far?
• What data do you still need to collect?
• What existing datasets can you use?
• How are you going to test your ideas?

Tools

• Consider using a collaborative planning tool like Trello
• Agree on priority tasks
• Set due dates
• Assign tasks to individuals
• Monitor and review progress at regular intervals

Listening Again

• Each person in group speaks for 1 minute
  • How I’m feeling today
  • What’s the next step for our team
• Just listen without interrupting
• Good practice for working with Focus Groups next week!

JupyterHub & IPython

https://jupyter-inf.is.ed.ac.uk

• Experimental service for interactive computing
• Login steps are a bit complicated still; should be simpler soon.

1. Login with EASE
2. Current landing page: select My Server
3. Navigation: dds-notebooks > notebooks
4. Select what_is_data.ipynb

Architecture Overview

• You login to your own directory space on the server
• You can make changes to your own copy of an existing notebook
• In order to keep your changes, copy the notebook and save under a new name
• You can create new notebooks, and download them to your own computer