Christmas special test workshop

eScience Center

December 24 - 26, 2021, CET

7:00 - 9:00

Instructors: Johan Hidding, Lieke de Boer, Mateusz Kuzak

Helpers: Pushpanjali Pawar, Thijs van Lankeveld

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General Information

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Where: Science Park 140, 1098 XG Amsterdam. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

When: December 24 - 26, 2021, CET.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).

Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:

The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
Accessible restrooms are available.

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.

Contact: Please email or training@esciencecenter.nl for more information.

Code of Conduct

Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.

Schedule

Day 1

Before starting	Pre-workshop survey
Morning	Data Organization in Spreadsheets
	OpenRefine for Data Cleaning
Afternoon	Introduction to R
Evening	END

Day 2

Morning	Continuation of R: Data Analysis & Visualization
Afternoon	Data Management with SQL
Evening	Post-workshop survey
	END

Setup

To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need access to software as 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.

Unrecognized value for variable flavor set in _data/data.csv. Valid values are "r" and "python", currently set to R.