An introduction to the US open energy data landscape, targeted at early careers interested in finding or wrangling data for their projects.
About this Event

Catalyst Cooperative is a worker-owned cooperative that scrapes, cleans and publishes free and open-source U.S. energy data through the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project.

We are kicking off a year-long workshop & seminar series focused on helping early career energy systems researchers get more familiar with data management and software development. There's no cost to participants. This work has been supported by the Sloan Foundation.

In the first installation, we'll be talking about issues including:

What are the major primary and secondary sources of open energy system data in the US?
How do they differ in terms of programmatic usability, frequency of updates, and ease of integration with other data sources?
What should you look for when evaluating an open dataset you found online?
How can data availability or readiness impact your research project?

If you’re an early career researcher and are struggling with finding or wrangling data for your projects, or if you just want to connect with others facing similar challenges, please join us!

We are going to try and stay away from this being one person lecturing, and take advantage of the synchronous format to be more interactive. We definitely want to hear from students about their needs and frustrations as we plan out the rest of the series.