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A farewell to the Berkeley Institute for Data Science — njs blog

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In February 2015, I joined the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) in a very unusual position: I got to focus full-time on making the open Python ecosystem work better for scientists. My contract is ending in a bit over a month, so I'm currently thinking about what's next. But in this post I want to instead look back on what this unique opportunity allowed me to do, both as a kind of personal post-mortem and in the hopes that it might be of interest to people and institutions who are thinking about different models for funding open source and open science. In particular, there's also a follow-up post discussing some implications for software sustainability efforts. Might as well start with the worst part: in late 2016 I came down with some serious health issues, and have been on partial disability leave since then. This has been gradually getting better – cross your fingers for me. But it does mean that despite the calendar dates, in terms of hours worked I've only been at BI

In February 2015, I joined the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) in a very unusual position: I got to focus full-time on making the open Python ecosystem work better for scientists. My contract is ending in a bit over a month, so I'm currently thinking about what's next. But in this post I want to instead look back on what this unique opportunity allowed me to do, both as a kind of personal post-mortem and in the hopes that it might be of interest to people and institutions who are thinking about different models for funding open source and open science. In particular, there's also

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