This week Dr. Amy Brand, the pioneering Director of The MIT Press and executive producer of documentary films, leads discussion of the benefits of — and innovations in — open-access publishing.
In the episode, Amy details:
• What open-access means.
• Why open-access papers, books, data, and code are invaluable for data scientists and anyone else doing research and development.
• The new metadata standard she developed to resolve issues around accurate attribution of who did what for a given academic publication.
• How we can change the STEM fields to be welcoming to everyone, including historically underrepresented groups.
• What it’s like to devise and create an award-winning documentary film.
Amy:
• Leads one of the world’s most influential university presses as the Director and Publisher of the MIT Press.
• Created a new open-access business model called Direct to Open.
• Is Co-Founder of Knowledge Futures Group, a non-profit that provides technology to empower organizations to build the digital infrastructure required for open-access publishing.
• Launched MIT Press Kids, the first university+kids publishers collab.
• Was the executive producer of "Picture A Scientist", a documentary that was selected to premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival and was recognized with the 2021 Kavli Science Journalism Award.
• She holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from MIT.
Today’s episode is well-suited to a broad audience, not just data scientists.
The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
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The Normal Anxiety of Content Creation
This article was originally adapted from a podcast, which you can check out here.
It has been two years since my first book, Deep Learning Illustrated, was published. The years I spent writing the book were filled with persistent darkness and anxiety.
I had a sense of dread that when readers got their hands on the book, they would find catastrophic errors or humiliating gaps in my writing. I feared that some unidentified issue or collection of issues with the book would be so massive that the book would be perceived as a joke or that I would be perceived as a fraud. (I've learned since that such fears are common amongst authors, particularly whilst penning their first book.)
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