Ethan White

New materials on ethics in ecological forecasting to consider

1

https://tiee.esa.org/vol/v19/issues/case_studies/lewis/abstract.html

https://github.com/MacrosystemsEDDIE/module6/

We've removed the use of the term "stakeholder" generally from our materials following on discussions like this: https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/why-we-shouldn-t-banish-the-word-stakeholder?postId=1a6b9631-56a5-416e-a796-86d6dfb30d87 However it features so prominently in the paper we read on ecological...

Add 2 weeks on GAMS

1

One way to do this would be dropping EDM & SDM, though the SDM section is very popular.

https://atsa-es.github.io/atsa-labs/ via @nicholasjclark

Create integrated dataset for state space modeling exercise

1

In the current exercise we spend a bunch of time manipulating and loading data. Create a single dataset with all of the necessary information to remove this unnecessary cognitive load.

Consider submitting to Journal of Open Source Software

4

The Journal of Open Source Software is a really cool initiative to help provide review and credit for software in an academic context. Publishing there could be a good way...

Update readthedocs to reflect current installation instructions

1

Because the docs are hosted in the `retriever` repo they have gotten a little stale and need to be updated.

Allow installation of R package before Python/reticulate

1

From @dill in #230: > One suggestion: rather than asking the user to follow the instructions here, perhaps it's possible to do something similar to what greta does and allow...

Add installation instructions for databases

1

Looks like optional packages for doing this aren't getting installed by default at the moment. Rough outline. ## MariaDB ```R reticulate::py_install('pymysql') install.packages('DBI') install.packages('RMariaDB') ``` ## Postgres ```R reticulate::py_install('psycopg2') install.packages('DBI') install.packages('Rpostgresql')...