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Responding to your Learners
Picture for a moment one of your undergraduate university courses, or a recent meeting of your department’s research seminar. If your experience is typical, more likely than not the instructor or...
View ArticleSeptember Carpentries Community Call
Our next Carpentries Community Call (formerly called Lab Meeting or Town Hall meeting) will be Thursday, September 15 (September 16 Aus/NZ). These meetings will now be monthly on the third Thursday of...
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Self-Efficacy and the Carpentry Learner
The Little Engine that Could had it absolutely right. Thinking you can is one of the best ways to succeed at a host of activities ranging from public speaking and bungee jumping to cooking a souffle...
View ArticleAnalysis of Data Carpentry Workshop Impact
It’s funny. When I first started working for Data Carpentry, I had never heard the phrase, “reproducible research”. I can tell you now that having attended a Software Carpentry workshop, Data Carpentry...
View ArticleBelonging: Developing a Community of Practice among Data Carpentry Learners
Two schools of thought regarding learning and how it is achieved are the acquisition metaphor and the participation metaphor.The acquisition metaphor asserts knowledge is acquired individually,...
View ArticleOpen Instructor Training
After workshops and conferences, we frequently get questions from people who are interested in teaching with the Carpentries. We’re overjoyed by this interest and excited to bring more committed and...
View ArticleForming a Community-Developed Code of Conduct: What we learned.
Codes of Conduct are important because they define behavior expectations for a community and encourage positive relationships, and because of their importance, care must be taken when they are being...
View ArticleReproducible Research using Jupyter Notebooks: Curriculum Development Hackathon
Goal: Develop the content of a two-day Data Carpentry workshop teaching how to conduct research reproducibly using the Jupyter notebookLocation: Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), Berkeley,...
View ArticleCollaborative Lesson Development for Semester-long Courses
When did you realize you belonged to the Carpentry community?My first encounter with the Carpentry community was early in my PhD training, way back when Software Carpentry was teaching programming...
View ArticleThe R ecology lessons
The Data Carpentry lessons are aimed at learners who have never programmed before. Learning something new, especially coding, can feel intimidating. Yet learners attending our workshops are motivated...
View ArticleThe Python ecology lessons
Why We Teach ItIn the BeginningA lot of what are now the Python materials came out of a Software Carpentry Hackathon in 2014 when Software Carpentry was under the Mozilla Science Labs umbrella. At the...
View ArticleMaking use of Data Skills
Data Carpentry learners and instructors come from a variety of backgrounds and research disciplines. Many of us, myself included, don’t think of ourselves as “computer people.” We’re here because, at...
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Hand-crafted relational databases for fun and science
I’m a microbial ecologist that is primarily interested in understanding the ecological causes and consequences of plant-microbe interactions. Like many ecologists these days, my research spans the...
View ArticleA Year in Review: Annual Moore Progress Report
A year ago we were fortunate enough to receive a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery initiative to support Data Carpentry to develop and deliver data skills training...
View ArticleBuilding Genomics Data Analysis Capacity at NWU
The North-West University in South Africa boasts two next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms and additionally receive terabytes of NGS data annually from local and international service providers....
View ArticleInstructor Training for Librarians
We are pleased to announce that we are partnering with csv,conf (a community conference for data makers everywhere) to run an instructor training class specifically geared for people interested in...
View ArticleDiscovering the data science community, becoming part of it, and expanding it
My path to becoming part of a data science community was happenstance. I started programming as a graduate student because I wanted to increase the spatial and temporal scales of my analyses. The scale...
View ArticleClimate Science and the Command Line
Climate science has a pretty high profile these days, particularly in my personal area of research, which involves quantifying the role humans have played in climate change (otherwise known as “climate...
View ArticleFeedback on Communications
Software and Data Carpentry have at their core a collaboration-driven ethos, and communication is key to that collaboration. We’re reaffirming our commitment to open and transparent communication,...
View ArticleGrowth Mindset
Each of us is born with a unique set of interests. Along the way we develop beliefs about our interests, and those beliefs determine whether we choose to cultivate our interests as we progress through...
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