Fish Data Series, #4: Data Literacy is a Process

For our final episode of the Intertidal Pod (for now!) I'm talking with my friend and sometime AI collaborator Ben Woodward of CVision AI. We talk about the importance of open source data and algorithms, the challenge of building community around open source projects, and lasers.   

This episode, I'm speaking with Dr. Julie Lowndes of Openscapes. Don't learn R alone! Resources for you and your friends:  her online training on Github for Excel users;  the core (open and free) text behind R is R for Data Science;  a guide to The Tidyverse.  This is the paper on how the Ocean Health Index used GitHub not just to track their data and writing but also to improve the way they work together.  Openscapes, a platform for open science, and an example from a UMass lab using Github to lay out what they work on and how they work together.

This episode, I'm speaking with Dr. Jessica Gephart - Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at American University. Ever heard the quote about the huge amount of seafood America imports? Turns out, it might not be that huge after all. Because: math. Dr. Jessica Gephart loves math and we talk about how she's applying it to understand the resilience of the world's food systems. Also mentioned: the Seafood Globalization Lab, conversion factors, the NOAA Seafood Trade database website, and the horror of zebra mussels.

Or, when you start out wanting to be a fashion designer and end up defining a field to feed the planet. Dr. Halley Froehlich talks about how community college can change your life, the delight of a global open source coding community, and adorable spiny lumpsuckers. Also mentioned: Tidal fish farm monitoring from (Alphabet) X, Scoot Science, and the journey of the green sturgeon.

In this episode of the podcast, I'm speaking with Shah Selbe - a Conservation Technologist. We get technical with conservation engineer Shah Selbe and Fieldkit, his project to make low-cost, connected sensors you can use anywhere in the world (except maybe a boiling river in the Amazon). Also mentioned: Christine Liu's Art about Art & Science, DAT protocols, Los Angeles Unified School District's Data Science curricula.

This episode of the podcast, I'm speaking with Dr. Jono Wilson, Lead Fisheries Scientist at the Nature Conservancy. How do you get from fish data to fish decisions? People, discussions, and time. Dr. Jono Wilson talks about setting the stage for data-driven conversations with the FishPath tool, working in and out of academia, conservation aquaculture, and abalone "eyelashes."

Emilie Franke, Kim Gordon and Katie Latanich talk about their careers in fisheries and building our data literacy as we go. Also, what to do with your Sony minidisc collection.

In episode three of our series, we're talking through the way data moves from its first collection to when it's stored or deleted. How to think about the different stages of the data lifecycle to help your data live its best life and retire well.

In episode two of our series, we talk about data strategy, developing a data plan, and the tradeoffs between picking different data types. We also dive deeper into fishy data with our guest Dr. Bill Karp. 

For our first episodes, we'll dive into those questions and topics about data you think maybe you should know already. We're living in an age when "data" gets used in every other sentence and it can feel like we're all expected to be expert data creators, analysts, stewards, and subjects. Data World is a lot. Let's break it down, using as many fishy examples as we can.