Data Carpentry for Enhancing Teaching and Research

Project DA-FANH

Aug 08-09, 2022

9:00 am - 4:30 pm PDT

Instructors: Essia Hamouda, Robin Donatello, Elif Dede Yildirim, Benjamin Becerra

Helpers: Christine Hererra, Blessing Nwogu

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: This workshop is open to graduate students, staff and instructors at Chico State and CSU, San Bernardino. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Registration fees and links: Space is limited to 20 learners at each site. Registration fees are on a sliding scale:
- $40 for general Tenure track faculty.
- $20 for Lecturers and Adjunct faculty with promo code LecAdj
- $10 for Graduate students with promo code GradStudent
Use the following links to reserve your spot.

Where: Online with in-person room TBD. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

When: Aug 08-09, 2022. Add to your Google Calendar.

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. For workshops at a physical location, the workshop organizers have checked that:

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 fanh.analytics@gmail.com for more information.

Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.

Acknowledgement: This workshop is being offered by Project DA-FANH [grant no. 2021-77040-34880 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture]. Project DA-FANH aims to foster an active, inclusive, and diverse community of learners and instructors that promote and model the importance of software and data in the Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences.


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.


Collaborative Notes

We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.


Surveys

Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey

Post-workshop Survey


Schedule

Day 1

Before startingPre-workshop survey
Morning Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Sciences & Introduction to R/RStudio
Afternoon Introduction to R (continue)
End Wrap-up

Day 2

Morning Data Wrangling & Data Visualization with ggplot2
Afternoon Data Management with SQL
End Wrap-up
Before leavingPost-workshop survey

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.

The setup instructions for the Data Carpentry Social Sciences workshops (with R) can be found at the workshop overview site.
Use this SQL setup here .