JOSSCast: Open Source for Researchers

Oct 02 2024 21 ep. 29 mins 8

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Supercharge your research with the latest scientific software showcased in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). Hear directly from authors on their work, their motivations, and new ways open source software can accelerate your work. Hosted by editor-in-chief Arfon Smith and founding editor Abby Cabunoc Mayes, each episode features an interview with different authors of published papers in JOSS. Tune in to learn about the latest developments in research software engineering and open science, and how they are changing the way research is conducted. New episodes every other Thursday.

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Modernizing Weather Forecasting with Julia – Milan Klöwer on SpeedyWeather.jl

Oct 02 2024 42 mins

#20: Milan Klöwer joins Arfon and Abby to discuss SpeedyWeather.jl, its development, and its role in climate science. Milan is a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the University of Oxford. You can follow Milan on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/milankloewer bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/milank.bsky.social and at his website milankl.github.io Episode highlights: [01:10] - Introduci

Tackling the Machine Learning Reproducibility Crisis – KJ Schmidt & Aristana Scourtas on Foundry-ML

Sep 18 2024 28 mins

#19: KJ Schmidt & Aristana Scourtas join Arfon and Abby to discuss Foundry-ML, a platform designed to simplify using machine learning datasets, highlighting its development, impacts, and their career advancements post-project. KJ just started a position at the Institute for Genomic Medicine within Nationwide Children's Hospital. Aristana is a Product and Research Manager at

Visualize Hypergraphs with Open Source – Brenda Praggastis on HyperNetX

Sep 04 2024 31 mins

<p>#18: Brenda Praggastis joins Arfon and Abby to discuss HyperNetX, a Python package for modeling complex network data as hypergraphs. Brenda discusses the distinctions between graphs and hypergraphs, their real-world applications, and the collaborative nature of the hypergraph community. She also delves into the open-source development process, the capabilities and limitati

Setting the Standard for Audio Data Management – Magdalena Fuentes on Soundata

Aug 21 2024 32 mins

#17: Magdalena Fuentes joins Arfon and Abby to discuss her project Soundata. Magdalena shares insights into audio datasets, standardization, and community-driven open-source tools, offering valuable takeaways on reproducibility, dataset management, and open source in machine listening. Magdalena is an Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Integrated Design & Media at New

Greenhouse Gas Flux Analysis Made Easy – Karelle Rheault on goFlux

Aug 07 2024 32 mins

<p>#16: Karelle Rheault joins Arfon and Abby to discuss the development of goFlux, a user-friendly software designed to calculate greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes. The conversation covers Karelle's programming journey, challenges faced, and the role of open-source practices in advancing research.</p> <p>Karelle is a PhD student and the creator of goFlux.</p&

Data Quality Crafted with Passion – Herminio Vazquez & Virginie Grosboillot on cuallee

Jul 24 2024 34 mins

#15: Herminio Vazquez & Virginie Grosboillot join Arfon and Abby to discuss cuallee, their Python package designed for data quality checks across multiple data framed APIs. The discussion covers the importance of data quality, the passion behind the project, and the intersection of open-source software in both academia and industry. Herminio is the Director Data Strategy and An

Open Source Revolution in Radiotherapy – James Kerns on Pylinac

Jul 10 2024 39 mins

#14: James Kerns joins Arfon and Abby to discuss how Pylinac automates quality assurance for radiotherapy, running an open source project while teaching yourself to code, and the growing open source ecosystem for medical physics. James is a technical lead at Radformation, focusing on image analysis. You can follow James on LinkedIn and GitHub. Episode highlights: [00:37] - The Im

Humans Think in Graphy Ways – Naomi Arnold and Ben Steer on Raphtory

Jun 26 2024 36 mins

#13: Naomi Arnold and Ben Steer join Arfon and Abby to discuss their work on Raphtory, THE temporal graph engine for Rust and Python. Other topics include: pomegranates are the graphiest fruit, tracking ship to ship trading, and funding for open source projects through the Tools, Practices and Systems program at the Alan Turing Institute. Naomi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate

Text Augmentation for NLP – Kenneth Enevoldsen on Augmenty

Jun 12 2024 27 mins

#12: Kenneth Enevoldsen joins Arfon and Abby to discuss Augmenty, a python library for text augmentation, balancing contributor-friendliness with maintainability in open source, and which danishes he would eat. Kenneth is a PhD student at Aarhus University and the maintainer of many open source libraries including Augmenty, MTEB, TextDescriptives, ScandEval and more. You can follow

From COVID to Commuting – Fred Shone on Population Activity Modeller (PAM)

May 29 2024 30 mins

#11: Fred Shone joins Arfon and Abby to discuss his journey from engineer to economist to data scientist to PhD student, the development of Population Activity Model (PAM) including the evolution from pandemic modeling to broader population activity insights. Fred is a PhD student at the UCL Behaviour and Infrastructure Group (BIG). He built PAM when he was technical lead for the