Finding good example data for use in teaching is challenging for other data-intensive domains as well as (bio)image processing. The Carpentries and the Academic Data Science Alliance are collaborating to try to build a collection of openly-licensed data (CC0, ideally) that is suited to educational use. A lot of public repositories exist for data, but we were not able to find one focused on teaching e.g. for a dataset to be easily used for teaching, it helps for it to be well-documented/annotated and to fit into a "Goldilocks zone" of just-right complexity, size, noisiness, etc.
So we set up Pointers, a place for open peer review and hosting of openly-licensed datasets for teaching, which we hope will serve as a point of reference for people building teaching materials (lessons, curricula, tutorials, etc) to find and re-use good example datasets. So far, the collection contains only one entry (can it be a "collection" if it contains only one entry? 😆) so we would love to see more submissions.
Would you be willing and able to submit any of the example datasets you collect here to Pointers? If so, @vantuyls and I would love to help you in whatever way we can. The project website includes a submission guide that describes the process and the criteria on which datasets will be reviewed.
Finding good example data for use in teaching is challenging for other data-intensive domains as well as (bio)image processing. The Carpentries and the Academic Data Science Alliance are collaborating to try to build a collection of openly-licensed data (CC0, ideally) that is suited to educational use. A lot of public repositories exist for data, but we were not able to find one focused on teaching e.g. for a dataset to be easily used for teaching, it helps for it to be well-documented/annotated and to fit into a "Goldilocks zone" of just-right complexity, size, noisiness, etc.
So we set up Pointers, a place for open peer review and hosting of openly-licensed datasets for teaching, which we hope will serve as a point of reference for people building teaching materials (lessons, curricula, tutorials, etc) to find and re-use good example datasets. So far, the collection contains only one entry (can it be a "collection" if it contains only one entry? 😆) so we would love to see more submissions.
Would you be willing and able to submit any of the example datasets you collect here to Pointers? If so, @vantuyls and I would love to help you in whatever way we can. The project website includes a submission guide that describes the process and the criteria on which datasets will be reviewed.