Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

> Quickly looked into
> [\#mozsprint](https://twitter.com/hashtag/mozsprint?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> numbers that
> [@abbycabs](https://twitter.com/abbycabs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> released. There's a long tail w/ ⅓ of all 4,930 contributions coming
> from people who made ≤10 contributions. Many small contributions can
> make a big difference. 😍
> [pic.twitter.com/xk70AK8BIl](https://t.co/xk70AK8BIl)
>
> --- Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke) [May 14,
> 2018](https://twitter.com/gedankenstuecke/status/995908771976114177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Participating in the *Mozilla Global Sprint* is somewhat of an annual
ritual for me. This year's installment took place on May 10/11. As *Open
Humans* hadn't ever participated in a Sprint before, I spent some time
in [getting up a clean list of ways to contribute on a small
micro-site](http://openhumansfoundation.org/globalsprint-2018/). Given
that we [recently started our *Personal Data
Notebooks*](https://blog.openhumans.org/2018/05/14/personal-data-notebooks-explore-and-analyze-your-data-right-in-your-browser/),
a lot of the ways to contribute focused on writing some basic data
analyses notebooks.

Having a good collection of example notebooks makes for a great showcase
and a fun way to teach how *Jupyter Notebooks* can be used to learn
about yourself. Prior to the sprint we already had some basic example
notebooks that performed simple analyses of data from *Fitbit*, *Apple
Health* and *Twitter*.

![](http://openhumansfoundation.org/ohjh-example-notebooks/header-image.gif)

During the sprint we could expand on that and get some notebooks that
use data from *Moves*, *23andMe* and (soon) also *uBiome*:

- Based on a reference panel - [generated from openSNP
  genotype/phenotype
  data](https://github.com/OpenHumans/ohjh-example-notebooks/blob/master/eye-color-and-23andme-data.ipynb) -
  you can use your *23andMe* data to see whether your genetic data can
  predict your eye color.
- The GPS data of *Moves* can be used to find out [whether the weather
  around you influences your physical
  activity](https://github.com/OpenHumans/ohjh-example-notebooks/blob/master/moves-analysis.ipynb).
- Your own microbiome as analyzed by *uBiome* can soon be [compared to
  all public microbiome data
  sets](https://github.com/OpenHumans/ohjh-example-notebooks/pull/10).

But things often only get really interesting when you cross data
streams. Two further notebooks that were contributed during the
*\#mozsprint* demonstrate this:

- One notebook correlates your *Moves* data with your *Twitter* data to
  see [whether the weather has an impact on your mood as recorded by
  your
  tweets](https://github.com/OpenHumans/ohjh-example-notebooks/blob/master/twitter-under-the-weather.ipynb).
- Another notebook correlates your *Twitter* posting frequency with your
  step counts as measured by *Fitbit* [to see whether social media makes
  you walk
  less](https://github.com/OpenHumans/ohjh-example-notebooks/blob/master/twitter-and-fitbit-activity.ipynb).

![](/assets/images/2018-mozsprint-image.png)

These example notebooks [are already preloaded when you start your own
*Personal Data
Notebooks*](http://openhumansfoundation.org/ohjh-example-notebooks) and
they should work right away on your own data. They hopefully inspire you
to write your own data analyses that you want to share. As a further
small incentive: [*Open Humans* is running a Notebook competition until
the 27th of
May](https://blog.openhumans.org/2018/05/14/personal-data-notebooks-explore-and-analyze-your-data-right-in-your-browser/).
The best notebooks will not only be included in our example demo
notebook collection, but also highlighted on
[*QuantifiedSelf.com*](http://quantifiedself.com/).

Happy data analysis everyone! 🎉 📊


Participating in the

 Mozilla Global Sprint

is somewhat of an annual ritual for me. This year’s installment took place on May 10/11. As

 Open Humans

hadn’t ever participated in a Sprint before, I spent some time in getting up a clean list of ways to contribute on a small micro-site.

The 2018 #mozsprint

> The last two days for us. Thanks to everyone who made this such a
> great [\#mozsprint](https://twitter.com/hashtag/mozsprint?src=hash)
> 🙏🎉 [pic.twitter.com/rzvHcaM5tV](https://t.co/rzvHcaM5tV)
>
> --- openSNP team (@openSNPorg) [June 2,
> 2017](https://twitter.com/openSNPorg/status/870679611436261376)

[Philipp](http://www.twitter.com/PhilippBayer) and I again participated
in the [*Mozilla Global
Sprint*](https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/), which took place on
1st and 2nd of July. Last year we already participated, with the
\#mozsprint being the big finale of our participation in the *Working
Open Workshop* and the *Mozilla Open Leadership Cohort*. This year we
not only switched sides and both mentored people in the programs (which
was awesome, I can't wait to do the post-#mozsprint calls with the
mentees to hear how it went), but again took the chance to get some
uninterrupted time to work on [*openSNP*](https://opensnp.org). Split
between Perth and Frankfurt we don't often get the chance to work
side-by-side, even if it's only virtual (damned be those time zones). No
wonder that I was so excited to get started on the first day, that I
accidentally started my way into the office on bare feet👣.

![popup](/assets/images/2017-mozsprint-opensnp-wide.png)

This year we had prepared a good list of big items we wanted to tackle.
The biggest being the redesign of *openSNP*. Since we started the
website in 2011 the frontend had aged a good bit, with the design being
more or less unchanged since the start. Which also meant that we were
one of the last sites on the web that didn't support any responsive
interfaces, which made using *openSNP* a pain if you happened to access
it from your smartphone or tablet.

[Mateus](https://github.com/MateusJabour), one of our *Google Summer of
Code*-student did a great job on implementing the last version of
*Bootstrap* into *openSNP*. Unfortunately, there were a good number of
merge conflicts and bugs that were a result of the underlying code base
changing too much during the *Summer of Code*. Having the two days of
the *\#mozsprint* was a great opportunity for us to finally merge the
wonderful new design into the production system 😍.

Which means you can finally browse *openSNP* from your phone without
having to worry about your thumbs getting sore from scrolling so much in
all directions. And we even managed to [fix most of the
bugs](https://github.com/openSNP/snpr/issues/375) that came with the
makeover 🐛🎈.

![popup](/assets/images/2017-mozsprint-opensnp-responsive.png)

Another big thing, that was a headache each time we wanted to adjust our
email system, was the poor layout of our email templates, which was the
opposite of *Don't Repeat Yourself*. I spent a good amount of time to
finally implement a proper templating system, which means changes to any
emails sent to the openSNP users will no longer mean a day full of
suffering. 🎉 And one thing that must have made
[Helge](https://github.com/tsujigiri/) super happy is the increase of
our test coverage which has [increased by some percent since the
*\#mozsprint*](https://github.com/openSNP/snpr/pull/388).

But the best part of the sprint is that new people will join you in
contributing, like [Amiefairs](https://github.com/amiefairs), who [fixed
our broken grammar](https://github.com/openSNP/snpr/pull/369) in so many
places 🖋. Or [Bverpaalen](https://github.com/bverpaalen), who helped to
significantly improve our documentation 🖊. In the same spirit I
moonlighted a bit on [betatim's](https://github.com/betatim) [command
line interface for the Open Science
Framework](https://github.com/dib-lab/osf-cli) 🖥.

![popup](/assets/images/2017-mozsprint-impact.png)

The numbers for *openSNP* are really cool, not only contributed 6 people
in 45 commits, closing 25 pull requests and 10 issues, but we could also
shrink our code base by a good 4,000 lines of code 💖! Thanks to all of
the contributors who spent their time helping us out. I already can't
wait for the next sprint, to work on the next big projects across all
time zones!

![thanks](/assets/images/2017-mozsprint-thanks.gif)


Philipp and I again participated in the

 Mozilla Global Sprint

, which took place on 1st and 2nd of July.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

The 2018 #mozsprint

openSNP at the #mozsprint