openwashdata

a community effort to bring open data practices to the WASH sector

Lars Schöbitz

lschoebitz@ethz.ch

Colorado WASH Symposium 2023

March 9, 2023

openwashdata

openwashdata

• Receive credit for work that is not a scientific paper
• Give recognition to those that support your work
• Tell stories with data that haven’t yet been told
• Meet people that care about data and code being open and reusable

The Opportunity

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

PDF reports

PDF reports

PDF reports + Dropbox

PDF reports + Dropbox

The Journey

The Product

What does final look like?

Engage

Our channels

One-way communication

• Website: openwashdata.org
• Newsletter: buttondown.email/openwashdata

Two-way engagement

• Instant messaging TBD: Slack, Discord, Matrix
• Submit ideas: github.com/openwashdata/data/issues
• Social media TBD: Twitter or Mastodon

Events

• Live coding stream: Twitch (regular)
• Hackathon: Online platform (one or two)
• Workshop: (Online) conferences (one or two)
• Online course: 10-weeks (one or two)

For whom?

Learner personas

persona	in brief	domain knowledge	programming knowledge	contribution motivation
Palesa	Pit emptying business owner that is tired of others asking her for her business data.	competent	novice	low
Yua	PhD student that wants to use her programming expertise to support the community.	novice	expert	high
Mandla	Master's student who wants to learn how to use R for data analysis and git version control.	competent	competent	high
Asim	Senior Researcher with a few years left to retirement who wants to share his career's worth of data with as little effort as possible.	expert	novice	low

Goals

Goals (by August 2024)

• Newsletter: 500 subscribers
• Website: 30 daily visits
• Data: 50 R data packages
• to be defined

openjmp

openjmp - the data and code the behind the JMP WASH estimates

Group Presentation 7 - Friday, 10th March 01:20 to 02:20 MST

Slides on openwashdata.org

Thanks! 🌻

Thanks 🌻

This project was supported by the Open Research Data Program of the ETH Board.

The slides were created via revealjs and Quarto: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/

You can view source code of slides on GitHub

Or you can download slides in PDF format

This material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International.

References

Bergen, Raúl, Lars Schöbitz, Chiara Meyer-Piening, Boynton Lin, Elizabeth Tilley, Marc Kalina, Siphiwe Rakgabale, First Name Last Name, and Global Health Engineering. 2023. “durbanplasticwaste: Durban (South Aftica) Plastic Waste Data.” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7708756.

Greene, Nicola, Sarah Hennessy, Tate W. Rogers, Jocelyn Tsai, and Francis L. de los Reyes III. 2021. “The Role of Emptying Services in Provision of Safely Managed Sanitation: A Classification and Quantification of the Needs of LMICs.” Journal of Environmental Management 290 (July): 112612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112612.

Mupinga, Ratidzaishe T, Tanaka M Chatema, Savanna R Perumal, Eva Mary, et al. 2021. “Addendum of Data Related to Drying of Faecal Sludge from on-Site Sanitation Facilities and Fresh Faeces.” Gates Open Res 4 (188): 188.

Soeters, S, P Mukheibir, and J Willetts. 2021. “Treatment Technologies in Practice: On-the-Ground Experiences of Faecal Sludge and Wastewater Treatment.”