Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Our mission is to provide researchers high-quality, domain-specific training covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research. Data Carpentry is a sibling organization of Software Carpentry. Where Software Carpentry teaches best practices in software development, our focus is on the introductory computational skills needed for data management and analysis in all domains of research. Our lessons are domain specific, from life and physical sciences to social science and build on the existing knowledge of learners to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Our initial target audience is learners who have little to no prior computational experience. We create a friendly environment for learning to empower researchers and enable data driven discovery.


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Upcoming Workshops

nl Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) Sep 10-11, 2018
us Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Aug 15-15, 2018
us Berkeley Institute for Data Science Aug 06-07, 2018
za North-West University - Mahikeng Campus Jul 18-20, 2018
ca University of Toronto Jul 12-13, 2018
us Wegner Health Science Information Center Jun 29-30, 2018
us UC Davis - DIBSI Geospatial Workshop Jun 27-28, 2018
us UC Davis - DIBSI Genomics Jun 27-28, 2018
us Genomics Data Carpentry and Machine Learning in R Jun 22-24, 2018
us Georgia Institute of Technology Jun 21-22, 2018
za Data Carpentry in association with DIRISA National Research Data Workshop Jun 20-21, 2018

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