Data Carpentry
Mike Trizna
Adriana De Palma
Sichong Peng
Reinder Radersma
Jen Thomas
Toby Hodges"
Curriculum Advisors Approve Redesigned DC R Ecology Lesson
The redesigned lesson will replace the existing version in the curriculum in July.
Oscar Masinyana
Maneesha Sane
Lesson programs' blog posts migration
The three lesson programs' blog posts have been merged into The Carpentries blog
Mike Trizna
Jen Thomas
Reinder Radersma
Adriana De Palma
Sichong Peng
Michael Culshaw-Maurer
Toby Hodges
Erin Becker
Beta Testing an Alternative Version of R Ecology lesson
Trialing a reimagined version of the popular Data Carpentry lesson: Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists.
Toby Hodges
Welcoming the New Lesson Program Governance Committees
Community leaders who will guide project strategy for Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry
Toby Hodges
Launching Data Carpentry: Image Processing with Python
Announcing the stable release of a new curriculum teaching image processing skills. Sign up to host a workshop today!
Toby Hodges
Calling for Volunteers to join a Lesson Program Governance Committee
Guide the development of Software Carpentry, Library Carpentry, or Data Carpentry
Toby Hodges
Planning for Lesson Program Governance Committees
Strengthening community leadership for Software, Library, and Data Carpentry
Rodolfo Montez Jr.
Azalee Bostroem
Erin Becker
Foundations of Astronomical Data Science Launch
Interested in teaching skills at the intersection of data science and astronomy? Sign up for onboarding or to host a workshop today.
Elnaz Amanzadeh
Running an Online Data Carpentry Workshop in Iran
This post covers the instructor's experiences teaching an online Data Carpentry workshop in Iran
Selorm Tamakloe
Reflections on my First Data Carpentry Workshop
Lessons learned during the author's first attendance at a Data Carpentry workshop
Clare Michaud
Sarah Stevens
Geospatial Data Carpentry Videos
Learn more about running the Carpentries semi-asynchronously.
Rayna Harris
Paula Andrea Martinez
Heladia Salgado
Nicolás Palopoli
Traducción al español de Ecología con Python, una lección de Data Carpentry
Nos complace anunciar una nueva lección traducida por la comunidad: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python
Rayna Harris
Paula Andrea Martinez
Heladia Salgado
Data Carpentry Python Ecology Lesson Translated into Spanish
We are excited to announce our newest community-driven lesson translation: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python
John Chodacki
Tracy Teal
Expanding Library Carpentry: Hiring a Library Carpentry Coordinator
Heladia Salgado
Paula Andrea Martinez
Sue McClatchy
Invitación a Participar / Invitation to Participate
Lactatia Motsuku
Glenn Moncrieff
Margareth Gfrerer
Anelda van der Walt
The First Ever Data Carpentry in Ethiopia
Rayna Harris
Tracy Teal
Joint future for Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry
Karen Cranston
Rayna Harris
Kate Hertweck
Hilmar Lapp
Timeline for the Data Carpentry & Software Carpentry Reorganization
Rayna Harris
Sue McClatchy
Tracy Teal
Instructor Training in Puerto Rico
Matthew Collins
François Michonneau
Brian Stucky
Ethan White
A Year to Build a Software and Data Carpentry Community at the University of Florida - The Impact of a Local Instructor Training Workshop on Building Computing Capacity
Alix Keener
Rayna Harris
Greg Wilson
Announcing the CarpentryCon Proposal
Karen Cranston
Hilmar Lapp
Aleksandra Pawlik
Karthik Ram
Tracy Teal
Ethan White
A Look Back and A Look Ahead from the Data Carpentry Steering Committee
Marian Schmidt
Jamie Hadwin
A Mentoring Subcommittee Co-Chair position has just opened!
Work first-hand on developing our ever growing instructor pool.
Tracy Teal
Jonah Duckles
A Welcoming Community
We're committed to a friendly and respectful community for learning, teaching and contributing
Justin Millar
Shawn Taylor
Ben Kok Toh
Ethan White
An extended Data Carpentry Workshop over 7 weeks instead of 2 days
Background to the workshop and lessons learned
Kari L. Jordan
Analysis of Data Carpentry Workshop Impact
Data Carpentry workshops have made a meaningful impact on the way learners view their ability to complete computational tasks.
Jonah Duckles
Tracy Teal
Announcing Belinda Weaver as our Community Development Lead
Please welcome her to our staff!
Erin Becker
Kari L. Jordan
Announcing our new Deputy Director of Assessment
Dr. Kari L. Jordan joins Data Carpentry as the new Deputy Director of Assessment
Tracy Teal
Announcing Partnerships
There are now opportunities to be partners with Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry
François Michonneau
Erin Becker
Announcing the first joint Carpentries Bug BBQ
Mark your calendar, the first joint Carpentries Bug BBQ will take place April 12-13!
Erin Becker
Tracy Teal
Be a part of Data Carpentry’s first lesson release!
We’re planning our first lesson release - learn how you can contribute!
Kari L. Jordan
Belonging: Developing a Community of Practice among Data Carpentry Learners
When did you realize you belonged to the Carpentry community?
Susan J. Simmons, NCSU Analytics
Ann E. Stapleton, UNCW Biology
Best recipe - just add statistics and science
Belinda Weaver
Blogging for the Carpentries - We Want to Hear From You
Share your knowledge to help others work more efficiently
Tracy Teal
Erin Becker
Bug BBQ squashes bugs!
“Over 75 pull requests from the Issue Bonanza and Bug BBQ”
Belinda Weaver
Erin Becker
Bug BBQ to Update Instructor Training Materials
Two days of bug squashing coming up!
Bianca Peterson
Anelda van der Walt
Maryke Schoonen
Jason Williams
Building Genomics Data Analysis Capacity at NWU
Tracy Teal
John Chodacki
Chris Erdmann
Belinda Weaver
Building Library Carpentry Community and Development
Kari L. Jordan
Tracy Teal
Erin Becker
Call for Code of Conduct Committee Volunteers
Be a part of a committee that ensures that our community continues to thrive on diversity of thought and perspective.
Erin Becker
Christina Koch
Call for Contributions: Data Carpentry Ecology and Software Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committees
“Be part of a team providing oversight, vision, and leadership for Carpentry curriculum.”
Erin Becker
Call for Contributions: Geospatial and Social Sciences Lessons
“Get involved as we prepare to publish two new Data Carpentry curricula”
Jason Williams
Tracy Teal
Call for Contributions: Moving Ahead with Genomics Data Carpentry
“Get involved as we prepare for our first Issue Bonanza and Bug BBQ on the Data Carpentry Genomics lessons”
Karen Cranston
Call for Nominations to Joint Steering Committee
Stand for election to the joint Steering Committee of the merged Carpentries organization
Lauren Michael
Christina Koch
Erin Becker
Career Pathways Panel Discussions
Lauren Michael
Carpentries Career Pathways Panel - Marianne Corvellec, Bernhard Konrad, Aleksandra Pawlik
Erin Becker
Kari L. Jordan
Tracy Teal
Christina Koch
Carpentries Mentorship Program - 2.0
We’re starting a new round of mentoring groups, centered on specific lessons.
Tracy Teal
Gina Helfrich
Carpentries Transition From Fiscally Sponsored Project to NumFOCUS Community Alliance Member
Marianne Corvellec
Kari L. Jordan
Challenges Assessing Data Science
What is data science? What are the core competencies?
Erin Becker
Code of Conduct and Call for Volunteers for Policy Subcommittee
The Carpentries seek your involvement in developing conduct-related policy.
Tracy Teal
Collaboration with rOpenSci on training for working with open data
A grant to rOpenSci from Helmsley Charitable Trust supports a collaboration with Data Carpentry to develop training for the use and publication of open data.
Zack Brym
Collaborative Lesson Development for Semester-long Courses
Building on Data Carpentry's core strength of collaborative lesson development.
Data Carpentry Steering Committee
Staff
Congratulations to Greg on his new position!
Thanks for all his amazing and inspirational work
Damien Irving
Data Carpentry for Atmosphere and Ocean Scientists
Want to teach data science skills to people working with weather, climate and ocean data?
Tracy Teal
Data Carpentry Genomics and Asssessment Hackathon
Announcing a Data Carpentry Genomics and Assessment Hackathon
Mateusz Kuzak
Data Carpentry Genomics comes to the Netherlands
The Netherlands eScience Center in collaboration with University Medical Center Utrecht, SURFsara and DTL/ELIXIR-NL organized one of the first Data Carpentry Genomics workshops in Europe.
Tracy Teal
Data Carpentry Instructor Certification <br>for Software Carpentry Instructors
Already a Software Carpentry instructor? Become a Data Carpentry instructor too!
Tracy Teal
Data Carpentry supports I4OC
Promoting the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data
Karen Cranston
Data Carpentry to adopt Reproducible Research Curriculum
Curriculum added to Data Carpentry to further support training in reproducible research
Tracy Teal
Data Carpentry Workshop Fees
Workshop fees to increase for workshops scheduled after September 1, 2015 to help with organization sustainability
François Michonneau
Developing GitHub labels for The Carpentries lessons
The process of developing GitHub labels for our lessons.
Erin Becker
François Michonneau
Tracy Teal
Ecology Issue Bonanza!!!
We’re planning our first lesson release - learn how you can contribute!
Tracy Teal
Erin Becker
Feedback on Communications
Creating a transparent and community-driven communications strategy.
Tracy Teal
First Data Carpentry Lesson Publication
“Hundreds of contributors to the Ecology lessons first official release”
Erin Becker
Bob Freeman
Mateusz Kuzak
Sue McClatchy
Tracy Teal
Jason Williams
Genomics Interest
Jason Williams
Erin Becker
François Michonneau
Genomics Workshop Pilot and BugBBQ at University of Arizona
Help prepare the Genomics lessons for release in June!
Erin Becker
Geospatial Workshop is Now Ready to Teach!
Want to teach geospatial skills? Sign up for onboarding or to host a pilot workshop today.
Tracy Teal
Grant from the Moore Foundation
We are very pleased to announce that we've received a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Kari L. Jordan
Growth Mindset
“No matter how hard I practice I’ll never be able to dunk a basketball.”
Leah Wasser
Hello, Spatio-temporal Data Carpentry
News from the pilot of the spatial data Data Carpentry workshop
Erin Becker
Help Update the Instructor Training Materials
We’re releasing a new version of the Carpentry Instructor Training curriculum - learn how you can help!
Tracy Teal
Hiring a Deputy Director of Assessment
We're hiring a Deputy Director of Assessment to study the impact we are having
Tracy Teal
Hiring an Associate Director
We're hiring an Associate Director to lead community engagement and education efforts
Elizabeth Wickes
How to approach selecting a license for data release
Suggestions and perspectives on how to select a license for your data publication
François Michonneau
How to be involved in the Bug BBQ?
A short guide on how to contribute and be involved during The Carpentries Bug BBQ.
Kari L. Jordan
I think I can - Self-Efficacy and the Carpentry Learner
Linking self-efficacy to learner success in carpentry workshops.
Erin Becker
Jonah Duckles
Kari L. Jordan
Maneesha Sane
Tracy Teal
Instructor Access to Workshops
Working with hosts and instructors on workshop access
Erin Becker
Instructor and trainee involvement
Analysis of checkout completion rates and time to first workshop for new instructors
Rayna Harris
Sue McClatchy
Tracy Teal
Instructor Training in Puerto Rico
“Building community through training and coding”
Tracy Teal
Maneesha Sane
Belinda Weaver
Launching our New Handbook
Find new pathways to a range of Carpentries' materials
Tracy Teal
Belinda Weaver
Launching The Carpentries Website
“We release our new merged website to celebrate our new merged identity, and to complement information in The Carpentries Handbook.”
Raniere Silva
Lesson Infrastructure Subcommittee 2017 September meeting
This post will cover the topics discussed and their resolutions.
Kari L. Jordan
Long-Term Assessment Strategy
With the help of our community we added skills-based questions to our surveys!
Kari L. Jordan
Mentoring Groups are Back!
'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.' - African Proverb
Kari L. Jordan
Mentoring Groups Showcase their Accomplishments
Community members engage during the mentoring groups virtual showcase.
Caroline F. Ajilogba
Amy Hodge
North West University Mafikeng Data Carpentry workshop
Christina Koch
Kate Hertweck
Our 2017 Community Service Award winner: Anelda van der Walt
Kari L. Jordan
Tracy Teal
Erin Becker
Karen Word
Our long-term assessment results are in!
A discussion of learner outcomes more than six months after attending a Carpentries workshop.
Fotis Psomopoulos
Belinda Weaver
Pack Your Bags for Dublin!
Ireland the venue for inaugural CarpentryCon
Kari L. Jordan
Stephen Childs
Alycia Crall
Reshama Shaikh
Aleksandra Nenadic
Karen Word
Louisa Bells
Pilot Survey Focus Group Update
Outcomes from focus group to discuss Data Carpentry’s survey instruments
Kari L. Jordan
Reflections on Assessment
Data Carpentry launches Skills-Based Pre- and Post-Workshop Surveys
Rayna Harris
Reproducible Data-Driven Discovery
Report back from the Curriculum Development Hackathon for Reproducible Research using Jupyter Notebooks and the Moore Foundation Early Career Researcher Symposium
Hilmar Lapp
Tracy Teal
François Michonneau
Kellie Ottoboni
Jamie Whitacre
Jasmine Nirody
Reproducible Research using Jupyter Notebooks: Curriculum Development Hackathon
Apply to participate!
Kari L. Jordan
Belinda Weaver
Round Two of the Carpentries Mentoring Program begins October 25th
Mentoring groups provide experienced instructors with the chance to help small groups develop confidence in teaching, lesson maintenance and community building.
Tracy Teal
Kate Hertweck
September Carpentries Community Call
Join the community call to connect with other instructors & get activity updates
Erin Becker
September Data Carpentry All-Stars!
Recognizing volunteers for their outstanding work in the community.
François Michonneau
Erin Becker
Social Sciences Lessons Published!
Announcing publication of a Data Carpentry curriculum for social scientists.
Anelda van der Walt
Software and Data Carpentry Instructor Training Comes to Africa
Instructor training event will take place in Potchefstroom, North-West Province, South Africa from 17 - 20 April 2016
Anelda van der Walt
South Africa's North-West University Becomes Software and Data Carpentry’s first African Partner
Data Carpentry Steering Committee
Software Carpentry Steering Committee
Staff
Standing for Inclusivity: a Foundation for Our Teaching and Community
Erin Becker
State of the State: Instructor Checkout
“An updated history of how new Instructors become certified”
Tracy Teal
Erin Becker
Hilmar Lapp
Karen Cranston
Karthik Ram
Survey on workshops for for-profit organizations
Requesting community feedback on workshops for for-profit organizations
Ivo Arrey
The Data Carpentry journey to University of Venda, South Africa
Ecology workshop and study group
Karen Cranston
Rayna Harris
Kate Hertweck
Hilmar Lapp
Timeline for the the Data Carpentry & Software Carpentry Reorganization
Tracy Teal
Updates from the Data Carpentry Steering Committee annual in-person meeting
A brief review of the past year and plans for the year ahead
Tracy Teal
Erin Becker
Welcoming our new Associate Director
Dr. Erin Becker starts as the new Data Carpentry Associate Director
Tracy Teal
Workshop in Brussels, 2-3 Nov 2015
At the beginning of November, Belgium held its first Data Carpentry workshop.