Research Beyond the Lab, Spring Term 2022, Global Health Engineering, ETH Zurich. Raw data and analysis-ready derived data on waste management in public spaces in Zurich, Switzerland.

This repository contains all raw and derived data produced as part of the ETH Zurich course "Research Beyond the Lab: Open Science and Research Methods for a Global Engineer" (151-8102-00L) offered in spring term 2022.

Students were assigned teams of four to conduct a collaborative research project broadly addressing the theme of “Trash in the Public Spaces of Zurich” in collaboration with Entsorgung & Recycling Zürich (ERZ), the waste management department at Stadt Zürich.

Research methods and design are taught in the first half of the course. Surveys and a waste characterisation study are then designed based on the research questions students have developed in their respective teams. The collected raw data is used in the course to teach principles of research data management, tidy data structures, reproducible research with R & RStudio, and collaboration and version control with Git & GitHub.