My Favorite Tool: Rasterio
Rasterio is a Python spatial data library that has changed the way I work with large spatial datasets.Ever struggled to do calculations with big datasets in proprietary GIS software? Re-project your...
View ArticleLesson Infrastructure Subcommittee 2017 November meeting
On 16 November 2017 at 15:00 UTC+0, the Lesson Infrastructure Subcommittee had their 2017 November meeting. This post will cover the topics discussed and their resolutions.Software Carpentry and Data...
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Open Con Berlin - Impressions
Along with fellow Software Carpenters Rayna Harris and Paula Martinez, I attended OpenCon 2017 held over the weekend of 11-13 November, 2017 in Berlin. The conference was held in the Harnack Haus in...
View ArticleCall for Contributions: Geospatial and Social Sciences Lessons
The Data Carpentry community has published two full workshop curricula in 2017, both targeted towards researchers in the life sciences. We had our first lesson release for our Ecology lessons in May,...
View ArticleChallenges Assessing Data Science
The Assessment Network was established as a space for those working on assessment within the open source/research computing community to collaborate and share resources. During our quarterly meeting in...
View ArticleWhen Do Workshops Work?
Author: Karen R. WordContributors: Kari Jordan, Erin Becker, Jason Williams, Pamela Reynolds, Amy Hodge, Maxim Belkin, Ben Marwick, and Tracy Teal.“Null effects of boot camps and short-format training...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2018 Executive Council for the Carpentries
Voting in the election for community governance of the Carpentries (Executive Council, formerly named Steering Committee or Board of Directors) closed last week. Out of the 501 members eligible for...
View ArticleOur 2017 Community Service Award winner: Anelda van der Walt
The Carpentries are happy to honor Anelda van der Walt as our 2017 Community Service Award winner. We received seven independent nominations for Anelda this year, which is a testament to her commitment...
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A Week o' Carpentry
Bringing the Carpentries to the Federal Reserve Board staffI ran Technical Training for the Federal Reserve Board for over 20 years, designing and implementing training programs tailored to the Fed’s...
View ArticleThe Centrality of the Code of Conduct
This is the first in a series of posts about Carpentries’ teaching practices. Subsequent posts will cover the other practices - live coding, sticky notes, helpers, challenges, etherpads - that make...
View ArticleNew Year Message from the Carpentries' Executive Director
One of my favorite sticky note moments involved two sticky notes, red and green, folded into origami cranes, that I received after a workshop. Maybe it was just idle hands working away during an...
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A Look Back and A Look Ahead from the Data Carpentry Steering Committee
On May 8-9, 2014 Data Carpentry hosted its first workshop at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). That workshop came out of an identified unmet need for the skills and perspectives to...
View ArticleCarpentries Transition From Fiscally Sponsored Project to NumFOCUS Community...
Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry have combined their separate projects into a new project, now known as The Carpentries.As part of this transition, Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are moving...
View ArticleState of the State: Carpentry Maintainers
All of the great work that we do as The Carpentries is dependent on the hard work and creativity of our community of volunteers. Each of you plays a vital role in helping us fulfill our mission of...
View ArticleExpanding Library Carpentry: Hiring a Library Carpentry Coordinator
California Digital Library is hiring for a Library Carpentry Project Coordinator!Job posting and applicationThe deadline for the Library Carpentry Project Coordinator position has just been extended....
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Unveiling the Carpentries Logor
Now that Software and Data Carpentry have merged, we wanted a new logo to celebrate our coming together as the Carpentries, and to give that project its own distinct identity.The new logo retains a...
View ArticleScaling Collaborative Curriculum Development for Data Skills Training
We are excited to announce that we have received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to train researchers in essential data skills and build a general framework for collaborative lesson...
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Valerie Aurora to Keynote at CarpentryCon 2018
The Carpentries are excited to announce that Valerie Aurora will be one of four keynote speakers at this May’s CarpentryCon in Dublin.Valerie is a software engineer turned diversity and inclusion...
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Mentoring Groups Showcase their Accomplishments
We just finished our second round of mentoring groups and had an amazing showcase of their work and ideas. In this round, we were more specific and focused on multiple topic areas. There were groups on...
View ArticleState of the State: Instructor Checkout
This blog post is the second in a series examining the roles and contributions of the different parts of the Carpentry community. In case you missed it - read the first post in this series, about...
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