Citizen Science with Python

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Citizen Science with Python @IanOzsvald – ianozsvald.com Ian Ozsvald PyConLT 2019 Keynote

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 Interim Chief Data Scientist  19+ years experience  How do we “do good” with data? Introductions By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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 Short stories on Citizen Science  Tips for how you could do the same  Short demo Goals today By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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Macedonian air quality By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald The “smelly fog” in Skopje Gorjan Jovanovski (when 21) Government open data showed “4* more pollution than Beijing and 20* EU limits” www.theair.app Photo: https://www.facebook.com/ilijoski

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 Initially a JSON dump  1 mil. People in 1 mo.  Visualisation in Parliament  Challenged by a Minister  Drove Government policy Political debate and change By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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 Get a public dataset – most people can’t but you can  Load it, investigate  Make some graphs with matplotlib  Can you tell a story? How to start? By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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Updating outdated medical results By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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Updating outdated medical results By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald  Friedman 1955  Stages of labour by cervix dilation  Different drugs, ages, technologies  Significant medical decisions based on the result

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Updating outdated medical results By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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Actionable results By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald First or ‘many’ births? Weight (before delivery) Age

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 Check for out-dated assumptions  Gather data & visualise  Produce simple models (if/then models are great!)  Build up iteratively as you gain trust How to start? By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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 Dirk Gorissen – track 6 Orangutangs in 2000 km^2 of Bornean jungle  Radio pings, drones and signal processing Where’s Bunga the Orangutang By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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 Sw Defined Radio, Python processing  Automated flight paths  SEE VIDEO  Success on second round! Where’s Bunga the Orangutang By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald https://dirkgorissen.com/2019/01/06/wheres-pinoh-tracking-orangutans-with-drones-and-gnu-radio/

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 Automate a manual process  Note – drones are complex, don’t start here!  Collect data, analyse, visualise signal, make decisions How to start? By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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 Hackathon  Can we get more people registered to vote?  Using only open data and adwords  Thanks Alex, Emiliano, Harry, John, Laurens, Nick Improving political engagement By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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Improving political engagement By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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Improving political engagement By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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 Jupyter Notebooks and open data  Can we challenge a Guardian news article and fix it?  Thanks to Tom Forth @thomasforth Short demo By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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 Tell useful data stories  Where’s PyData Vilnius? Start it?  Thank your organisers & speakers!  Send me a postcard if I taught you something? Summary By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald

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“Monitoring Personal Air Quality” By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald Github.com/OxygenLithium PyLondinium 2018 talk by Robin & Oliver