JupyterCon 2023

Environmental Data Science Book: community-driven computational notebooks for collaborative, reproducible and transparent Environmental Science
05-12, 15:00โ€“15:30 (Europe/Paris), Louis Armand 1

Abstract

The Environmental Data Science Book (or EDS Book) is a pan-european community-driven resource hosted on GitHub and powered by Jupyter Book. The resource leverages executable notebooks, regional cloud resources and technical implementations of the FAIR principles to support the publication of datasets, innovative research and open-source tools in environmental science. The EDS book does not aim to replace academic journals. It is a pedagogical opportunity maximizing open infrastructure services to translate research outputs into curated, interactive, shareable and reproducible executable notebooks which benefit from a collaborative and transparent reviewing process.

Building upon existing global open science communities such as the Turing Way and Pangeo, the EDS book provides clear guidelines for submission and reviewing, templates for creating and scheduling notebooks using GitHub Actions CI/CD tools, FAIR practices through RoHub (a platform suited for managing, sharing and preserving earth system and environmental research objects) and Binder to facilitate fully documented, shareable and reproducible notebooks.

The quality of the published content is ensured by a transparent reviewing process supported by GitHub related technologies. To date, the community has successfully published ten python-based notebooks covering a wide range of topics in environmental data science. The notebooks consume open-source python libraries e.g., intake, iris, xarray, hvplot for fetching, processing and interactively visualizing environmental research.

In future work, we expect to increase contributions showcasing scalable and interoperable open-source developments in other programming languages e.g Julia and R, and engage with computational notebooks communities alike towards improving scientific software practices in environmental science.

What is the EDS book?

Impact and outreach over last 12 months

Metrics of success

Presentations

Hola, I'm Alejandro (he/him) โญ

Open Science and FAIR Software and Data Advocate.

Focus on strengthening the Nordic position within climate modeling by leveraging, reinforcing and complementing ongoing national, European and world-wide initiatives. Interested in emerging technologies and passionate about bridging skills between different sets of expertise.