Welcome to the Open Book Project!
The Open Book Project is an initiative that combines open teaching datasets from the UK Data Service with Quarto and Jupyter Notebooks.
Project aims
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To create adaptable teaching resources for educators.
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To enhance reproducibility skills among students.
The project will develop Open books – versatile teaching resources that integrate data, code and narrative text to introduce data analysis skills. These resources are desgined to be used as they are or adapted to suit teaching needs.
Each Open Book is available in multiple formats:
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html - for a static, read-only viewing.
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Quarto (.qmd) and Jupyter notebook (.ipynb) - for local use and editing.
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Binder for interactive online analysis without local set-up
The open books are currently in development. You can already explore an example:
'Reduce car use?': html |
What skills are needed to create effective, clear, and functional Jupyter Notebooks or Quarto documents? The Open Book project presents version 1 of a skills framework for creating Jupyter Notebooks or Quarto documents.
This repository contains a curated selection of teaching datasets originally sourced from the UK Data Service and made available under an open-access licence. The data is provided here to support interactive, online exploration and learning activities.
British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021, Health Care and Equalities: Open Access Teaching Dataset Location in this repository: https://github.com/JenniferLB/Open_data/blob/master/bsa2021_healthcare_equalities_open.dta Citation and link to access from the UK Data Service: University of Manchester, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST), UK Data Service. (2024). British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021, Health Care and Equalities: Open Access Teaching Dataset. [data collection]. NatCen Social Research, [original data producer(s)]. UK Data Service. SN: 9236, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9236-1
British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019, Poverty and Welfare: Open Access Teaching Dataset Location in this repository: https://github.com/JenniferLB/Open_data/blob/master/bsa2019_poverty_open.dta Citation and link to access from the UK Data Service: University of Manchester, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST), UK Data Service. (2022). British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019, Poverty and Welfare: Open Access Teaching Dataset. [data collection]. NatCen Social Research, [original data producer(s)]. UK Data Service. SN: 8850, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8850-1
British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, Environment and Politics: Open Access Teaching Dataset Location in this repository: https://github.com/JenniferLB/Open_data/blob/master/bsa2017_open_enviropol.dta Citation and link to access from the UK Data Service: University of Manchester, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST), UK Data Service. (2022). British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, Environment and Politics: Open Access Teaching Dataset. [data collection]. NatCen Social Research, [original data producer(s)]. UK Data Service. SN: 8849, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8849-1
The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
Owner: Jen Buckley