Workshop in Brussels, 2-3 Nov 2015
Belgium has a flourishing biological research community and skills in data handling have become an essential tool for anyone conducting biodiversity science. The workshop was jointly organised by the...
View ArticleHiring an Associate Director
Data Carpentry is hiring! http://www.datacarpentry.org/jobs/With the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, we now have the opportunity to hire an Associate Director. The Associate Director...
View ArticleData Carpentry to adopt Reproducible Research Curriculum
by Karen CranstonPart of the mission of Data Carpentry is to encourage and enable reproducible research. The core Data Carpentry curriculum teaches researchers approaches and skills that are...
View ArticleStarting off Data Carpentry in 2016
In 2015 we were just starting out as an organization and ran limited workshops as we were working to scale. With many Software Carpentry instructors now certified as Data Carpentry instructors, our...
View ArticleSoftware and Data Carpentry Instructor Training Comes to Africa
by Anelda van der WaltNorth-West University eResearch, UCT eResearch, and Talarify are excited to announce that a Software & Data Carpentry Instructor Training event will take place in...
View ArticleHello, Spatio-temporal Data Carpentry
By: Leah WasserNEON Supervising Scientist, Education & Public Engagement @leahawasserI am sitting here in my hotel room in Oslo, Norway, floating on a high from the past few days of Carpentry...
View ArticleHiring a Deputy Director of Assessment
Data Carpentry is hiring!Data Carpentry seeks to hire a full-time staff member to direct its assessment activities. This person will design, implement, monitor, analyse, and report on a comprehensive...
View ArticleAnnouncing Partnerships
We’ve been hearing of the interest of organizations to build local capacity for training and to be able run both Data and Software Carpentry workshops. We are excited to announce that Data Carpentry...
View ArticleA Welcoming Community
The amazing Software and Data Carpentry community of instructors and learners is the foundation of our organizations. We have more than 500 instructors from 30 countries and have had over 20,000...
View ArticleWelcoming our new Associate Director
We are excited to announce that Dr. Erin Becker has accepted the position of Associate Director for Data Carpentry! Erin did her PhD in computational genomics and her postdoc at the Center for...
View ArticleR Instructor Training
Thanks to generous sponsorship from the R Consortium, Software Carpentry is running a two-day R instructor training class in Cambridge, UK, on September 19-20, 2016. If you are active in the R and/or...
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Instructor and trainee involvement
This analysis is meant to answer questions about the extent of the non-teaching instructor and the non-certified trainee issues.Analysis and Data FilesThe RMarkdown that generated this document:...
View ArticleHow to approach selecting a license for data release
A question recently came up on the SWC Discuss mailing list about how to select a license for publicly released data. Answering these questions without knowing the life story of the data in question...
View ArticleA Roadmap for Lesson Development
Our Lessons RoadmapDevelopment of domain-specific lessons in data literacy is part of the Data Carpentry mission. Data types, language (both computer and vocabulary), the types of questions that people...
View ArticleReopening Instructor Training
For the last ten months, the Software Carpentry Foundation has worked toward three goals for its instructor training program:Make the content more relevant.Increase the number of people able to deliver...
View ArticleSurvey on workshops for for-profit organizations
Data Carpentry’s vision is “building communities teaching universal data literacy”. All our activities are focused on working towards this vision.One of our signature activities is running and teaching...
View ArticleAnnouncing our new Deputy Director of Assessment
We are very happy to announce that Dr. Kari L. Jordan will be joining us as the new Deputy Director of Assessment! Kari is coming from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL where...
View ArticleCode of Conduct and Call for Volunteers for Policy Subcommittee
The Carpentries are proud to share a common Code of Conduct (CoC), which outlines acceptable standards of behavior for our community members and those interacting with the Carpentries at in-person...
View ArticleResources for Running Workshops
A successful Data Carpentry workshop is the result of coordinated effort among many different types of participants, including instructors, helpers, hosts, learners and Data Carpentry staff. Data...
View ArticleSeptember Data Carpentry All-Stars!
As a community-led organization, Data Carpentry depends on our active and highly-engaged volunteer community to carry out many of our core activities. Volunteer efforts span a wide range of activities,...
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