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openwashdata hackathon

Check out the three winning visualizations from our latest hackathon

We hosted an exciting hackathon, challenging data enthusiasts to dive into one of our 30+ datasets and craft innovative visualizations.

Internship - Data Science with openwashdata - 80% or more

A unique opportunity to apply your data science skills to real-world problems in the WASH sector.

Join our team for 4 to 6 months and support us in building the openwashdata community while learning about open science, open research data, reproducibility, SDG6, and WASH.

Job description: Data Steward at University of KwaZulu-Natal WASH R&D Center

Research Scientist Grade 8 Position

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is committed to Employment Equity with the intention to promote representivity within the Institution. Preference will be given to…

Data for social good, yes and then? A year at openwashdata as a data scientist

Experience and reflections from Mian Zhong

Reflecting on a transformative year at the Chair of Global Health Engineering, a data scientist shares her journey from a new graduate to a key player in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector.

Job advert: Data Quality Specialist at BASEflow, Malawi

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Creating and visualizing maps of WASH data - Part 3

Where are the pumps, waste skips, and humanitarian organizations?

In this series of blog posts, you will learn how to create maps with your geospatial data or plot a map with the help of external geospatial data.

openwashdata phase 2 proposal funded

Establishing a data stewardship network through strategic partnerships

openwashdata received another round of funding to continue working on their vision to establish an active global community that applies FAIR principles to data generated in the greater water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector.

My data science internship with the openwashdata team

Insights from Margaux Götschmann

This is a report of an internship that lasted for four months between March and June 2024. The intern, Margaux Götschmann, shares her experiences and learnings from working with the openwashdata team at the Global Health Engineering (GHE) group at ETH Zurich.

Margaux Götschmann

Internship - Data Science with openwashdata - 80% or more

A unique opportunity to apply your data science skills to real-world problems in the WASH sector.

Join our team for 4 to 6 months and support us is building the openwashdata community while learning about open science, open research data, reproducibility, SDG6, and WASH.

Data donation

Introduction to donating data for publication with openwashdata

This blog post provides a step-by-step guide on how to start developing an R data package throughout openwashdata.

Margaux Götschmann

Creating and visualizing maps of WASH data - Part 2

Where are the pumps, waste skips, and humanitarian organizations?

In this series of blog posts, you will learn how to create maps with your geospatial data or plot a map with the help of external geospatial data.

Strategic partnership with SOIL

Data stewardship at a non-profit organisation in Haiti

openwashdata and SOIL have formed a strategic partnership to collaborate on data stewardship. Together, we will assess existing data management practices, formulate a preliminary data management strategy, and pinpoint datasets ready for open publication.

Creating and visualizing maps of WASH data - Part 1

Where are the pumps, waste skips, and humanitarian organizations?

In this series of blog posts, you will learn how to create maps with your geospatial WASH data, and with the help of external geospatial data.

Strategic partnership with WASHWeb

The WASHWeb & openwashdata partnership is a significant step forward

WASHWeb and openwashdata have formed a strategic partnership to facilitate improvements in access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) data. Together, we will 1) maintain open source tools, 2) facilitate discussions and learning events, and 3) develop a WASH registry of Who works in the sector, What they do, Where they do it, and When it’s been done.

In an era of open science, how is ‘transparency’ shifting within qualitative research

Within the social sciences, researchers value transparency to assess the scientific rigour of qualitative research. Although transparency in data production and analysis are increasingly commonplace, data access lags behind other disciplines. At GHE we are working to make our qualitative research more transparent, while developing standards for open access that will not be exclusionary for scholars in low-resource contexts.

openwashdata 101

A starter kit to become a part of the openwashdata community

In this blog post, you will first find ways to access, download, and share our published data. Are you interested to publish your data with us? We talk about the starting steps to launch your open data practices, get your unique ORCID iD, sign up for GitHub, and join the chat on Matrix.