Meeting agenda 2019 12 10

• Time: Tuesday, 10 December 2019, 21:00 UTC
• Location: https://zoom.us/j/8911989380
• Moderator: Kate Hertweck
• Note taker: Luke Johnston
• Attendees:
• Apologies: Greg Wilson

Agenda

1. Overview of progress to date on sections of content:
   • Novice R
   • Novice Python
   • Intermediate
2. Overview of progress to date on other items
3. Proposals: None
4. Discussion items
   • Testing fit with log-normal distribution
   • General discussion about connectedness: related to PR on chapter order, PR on Zipfs Law narrative, discussion on coding exercises. Can we settle on a general structure and approach to guide refinement and editing?
5. Next steps
   • Expectations for holiday meetings/workflow?
   • Select moderator for next meeting

Minutes:

• R development still working away (Luke)
• No update to Novice Python
• Regroup for status of Novice materials, especially for Python (ping Greg for this).
  • Brandeis, Sara would like an update/reorg of what needs doing, where, etc.
• Recommendation of power law as per Charlotte issue. Go ahead.
  • Parallel version in Python and R
  • Analysis to follow through in the RSE book
• Connectedness, some difficulty in flow.
  • All agree with order of chapters? No disagreement.
  • Damien: There will be some small tweaks but otherwise he is done.
  • Focus on Python first, before moving to R book.
  • Need someone to do R conversion. Deal with that later?
  • Broadly, "narrative" scripts for the analysis will stay throughout the book.
• Next meeting Jan. 7th
• Damien to finish Python scripts.
• Brandeis and Sara meet to get updated.
• Notetaker Charlotte and Kate is moderator.
• Merry Christmas everyone!!