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A Data Carpentry Workshop

Host: University of California Museum of Paleontology

UC Berkeley

March 3-4, 2016

8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructors: Karthik Ram, Tracy Teal

Helpers: Garret Christensen, Ryan Peek, Vessela Ensberg, Edward Davis, Brian Westra

General Information

This workshop is also being broadcast remotely to the University of Oregon

University of Oregon location: Knight Library Studio A

More information about the workshop is available at: https://github.com/datacarpentry/2016-03-03-ucmp/wiki

Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data.

We will cover Data organization in spreadsheets and OpenRefine, Introduction to R, Data analysis and visualization in R and using APIs and SQL for data management. Participants should bring their laptops and plan to participate actively. By the end of the workshop learners should be able to more effectively manage and analyze data and be able to apply the tools and approaches directly to their ongoing research.

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers.

Where: 2063 Valley Life Sciences Building. Campus map for directions

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Data Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: Please mail tkteal@datacarpentry.org for more information.


Preliminary Schedule

Day 1

Morning Data organization in spreadsheets and OpenRefine
Afternoon Introduction to R

Day 2

Morning Data analysis and visualization in R and using APIs
Afternoon SQL for data management

Setup

To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need working copies of the described software. Please make sure to install everything (or at least to download the installers) before the start of your workshop. Participants should bring and use their own laptops to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow once you leave the workshop.

Please follow these Setup Instructions.

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.