General Information

Data Carpentry: develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Our mission is to provide researchers high-quality, domain-specific training covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research. Data Carpentry is a sibling organization of Software Carpentry. Where Software Carpentry teaches best practices in software development, our focus is on the introductory computational skills needed for data management and analysis in all domains of research. Our lessons are domain specific, from life and physical sciences to social science and build on the existing knowledge of learners to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".

Who: The course is aimed at scientists (Ph. D.), IT specialists and technicians (BS/MS level). Attendees are learners who have little to no prior computational experience. We create a friendly environment for learning to empower researchers and enable data driven discovery.

Where: Charles W. Capps, Jr. Center classroom, Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center, 141 Experiment Station Road, Stoneville, MS. (Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.)

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Software Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: Please mail op.perera@ars.usda.gov for more information.

Schedule

Syllabus

Setup

To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need access to the software described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.

We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.