The Turing Way: A collaborative guide to data science and research

Presented at the Code for All Summit 2022.

The Turing Way is an open-source, community-led, and collaboratively developed project on making data science and research skills accessible, comprehensible, and beneficial for a wider research community. We bring together individuals from diverse fields and expertise to develop practices and learning resources that can make data research comprehensible and useful for everyone. These resources are organised as an online book with over 250 chapters made by more than 300 contributors across five guides on reproducibility, project design, collaboration, communication and ethics in research. All questions, comments, recommendations, and discussions are facilitated through an online GitHub repository. This lightning talk will introduce participants to the project, and share more about how they can get involved, and why open, collaborative, and community-led resources are so important for data science research and the field of civic technology more broadly.