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Provide a link to datahub

Open aculich opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

Let's add a link to the README.md file so that people can launch the repo on the campus datahub.

In case there are problems with a participant's local installation, using the campus datahub is a great alternative for the workshop. For UCB-only based trainings, the datahub which uses CalNet authentication is a better option than using Binder. The campus datahub provides long-term persistent storage, whereas the Binder storage gets deleted after an hour of inactivity.

Using the nbgitpuller link generator it's possible to pull any arbitrary (non-private!) github repo into datahub, such as with this link that I generated:

https://datahub.berkeley.edu/hub/user-redirect/git-pull?repo=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdlab-berkeley%2FComputational-Social-Science-Training-Program&urlpath=tree%2FComputational-Social-Science-Training-Program%2F&branch=master

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aculich avatar Nov 07 '20 01:11 aculich

@Akesari12 this would (partly) address the local install issue that came up today so that people can participate even if their local install is broken.

aculich avatar Nov 07 '20 01:11 aculich

Thanks, this is a good idea! @aculich , is there a similar solution we can use for R? Next semester we will transition to R for causal inference so I wonder if we can get ahead of any potential problems there.

Akesari12 avatar Nov 07 '20 01:11 Akesari12

Is it possible to document a quick start guide for novice users to add a repo to their datahub? The documentation is quite intense for the beginner. Unless one knows that you have to first visit nbgitpuller and know what a JupyterHub URL is then there is the risk that students will be frustrated with yet another tool that is incredibly powerful but not clear how to use.

EastBayEv avatar Dec 06 '20 20:12 EastBayEv