Regime Shifts in R & Data Science within the BC Public Service

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# Regime Shifts in R & Data Science within the BC Public Service
]
.subtitle[
## Observations from the field
]
.author[
### Stephanie Hazlitt
]
.date[
### 2021-06-05
]

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## BC Public Service 🇨🇦

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<img src="graphics/prod/figsunnamed-chunk-1-1.png" alt="Map showing the boundaries of the province of British Columbia and Washington and Oregon states"  />
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<img src="images/parsa-mivehchi-rmHcG8mDtz0-unsplash.jpg" alt="Image of British Columbia's Parliament House building located in Victoria, B.C. sourced from Unsplash" style="max-width:100%; padding: 50px 0px 0px 70px;"/>
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## @stephhazlitt

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```r
## Steph's Path

"Bird Biologist" %>% 
"Research Scientist" %>% 
"Conservation Specialist" %>% 
"Environmental Reporting" %>% # R
"Senior Data Scientist"
```
]

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## Growth in the Use of R in the BC Public Service

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## Regime Shifts in Natural Ecosystems

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- Large changes in the structure & function of a system  
  
- Shifts: a smooth internal change in a process  _or_ an external disturbance triggering a change

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<img src="images/mana5280-axqTLZ12Jss-unsplash.jpg" alt="Image of a Sea Otter sourced from Unsplash" style="max-width:50%; padding: 0px 20px 130px 0px;"/><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/CascadiaMap.png" alt="Map of Cascadia bioregion and Pacific Northwest provinces and states sourced from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(bioregion)" style="max-width:45%;"/>.teeny[Map: Lauren Tierney CC BY-SA 4.0]
]

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## Internal Change: Building a Learning Community

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## Learning from Other Communities

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## Disturbance: bcgov GitHub 🎉

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<img src="images/bcgov-github-2015.png" alt="bcgov GitHub web page screen shot from 2015" style="max-width:80%;"/>
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## Open Learning Content

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## Helping Became Easier

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<img src="images/slh-helpme-gist.png" alt="GitHub Gist web page example screen shot" style="max-width:150%;"/>
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<img src="images/code-together_Feb2020.jpeg" alt="Picture of BC Public Service code together meet-up" style="max-width:80%; padding: 150px 0px 0px 120px;"/>
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## Open Code 🚀

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✂️ & 📋 -> Collaborations -> Contributions -> Code Reviews

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## Growth in the Use of R & GitHub in the BC Public Service

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## Current State: bcgov R Open Source

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## Current State: bcgov Data Science Community of Practice

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## Current State: R Learning in the BCPS

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- getting started  
- geospatial  
- big data  
- reproducibility  
- bridging workflows 🌉
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 <img src="images/ds-cop-poster.png" alt="bcgov Data Science Community of Practice logo sticker" style="max-width:100%;"/>
 
 .footnote[bcgov Data Science CoP webinar poster, May 19th 2021
 ]]

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## Observation: People

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<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXxdBfvXsAARMyU?format=jpg&name=medium" alt="Picture of bcgov Data Science Community members interacting on a video call" style="max-width:100%; padding: 50px 0px 0px 50px;"/>
]

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## Observation: Trust

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## Future State?

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```r
R_growth <- "regime shifts?"
```

- non-linear  
- many stable states  
- expected to increase

![](graphics/prod/figsunnamed-chunk-8-1.png)

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]

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## Cascadia R Conf 2021: Infectious Ideas

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"Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe"  – Dr. Bonnie Henry 🇨🇦

@stephhazlitt on Twitter & GitHub  
https://github.com/stephhazlitt/regime-shifts