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SUMMARY:From open source and open data to “open computation”: a climat
 e science perspective - Roly Perera\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20231110T130000Z
DTEND:20231110T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Working in the open and making source code and data freely ava
 ilable are essential to modern scientific practice\, but don’t by themse
 lves help us understand the complex relationships between data and computa
 tional outcomes. In this talk I will present (and demonstrate) techniques 
 from programming languages research which automate the creation of data-dr
 iven software able to reveal how outputs were computed from data. Our curr
 ent prototype can automatically highlight relevant parts of an underlying 
 dataset as visual outputs are selected\; extending this to produce computa
 tional “explanations” of how those data were aggregated or transformed
  during the computation of the selected outputs is work-in-progress. I wil
 l close by talking about some longer-term challenges for this idea in the 
 context of climate science\, and the prospects for language-based transpar
 ency taking us beyond open source and open data to computations which are 
 able to explain how they work.\n\nRoly is a programming languages research
 er at the Institute of Computing for Climate Science\, University of Cambr
 idge and a former member of the Research Engineering Group at The Alan Tur
 ing Institute.
LOCATION:FW11\, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zo
 om.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&amp\;from=addon 
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