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.