Winter 2021-22 Technical Skills Workshops

Agnes Cameron

In Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, we are running a series of workshops covering foundational coding and data science skills, based on lessons developed by the Carpentries.

For each workshop, we will aim to have between 5-20 participants.

Provisional Workshop Calendar

This calendar is subject to change dependent on interest in particular workshops, but they will be held regularly every other Tuesday, and will be confirmed by email 2 weeks in advance. If you are unable to make a workshop that you would be interested in attending, please get in touch, and I can find time to schedule a parallel workshop.

Date	Workshop	Contents
Tuesday Feb 8th, 11am-1pm EST; Thursday Feb 10th, 4pm-6pm EST	Data analysis + visualisation with python part 1	Jupyter notebooks, variables, data types, control structures, dates and times
Tuesday Feb 22nd, 11am-1pm EST Thursday Feb 24th, 4pm-6pm EST	Data analysis + vis with python part 2	importing data, control structures
Tuesday Mar 8th, 11am-1pm EST Thursday Mar 10th, 4pm-6pm EST	Data analysis + vis with python part 3	dataframes, joins, visualisation with matplotlib, sqlite databases
Tuesday Mar 22nd, 11am-1pm EST Thursday Mar 24th, 4pm-6pm EST	Intro to git and github	linking git and github, making a commit, adding an ssh key
Tuesday Apr 5th, 11am-1pm EST Thursday Apr 7th, 4pm-6pm EST	Intro to Unix command line	files and directories, navigation, pipes and filters
Tuesday Apr 19th, 11am-1pm EST Thursday Apr 21st, 4pm-6pm EST	Intro to Unix command line part 2	loops, scripts, finding things
Tuesday May 3rd, 11am-1pm EST Thursday May 5th, 4pm-6pm EST	Publishing data online	SQLite, Datasette, Dataverse, Zenodo, BigQuery, Github Actions, Jupyter notebooks, OpenRefine
Tuesday May 17th, 11am-1pm EST Thursday May 19th, 4pm-6pm EST	Advanced git + github	Merges, Conflicts, Automation
Tuesday May 31st, 11am-1pm EST Thursday June 2nd, 4pm-6pm EST	OpenRefine and Regular Expressions	OpenRefine, facets, sorts, regex syntax, entity reconciliation

These sessions are based on workshops designed by the Carpentries, a community-run learning and teaching initiative for research software skills. You can read in more detail about the classes here:

As each workshop requires a small amount of preparation, please get in touch (email [email protected]) if:

You’d like to attend one of these workshops
You would be able to help at one of these workshops (you’re somewhat familiar with the material and would be happy to help handle students’ questions)
You’d like to request a workshop that’s not currently listed
You’d like to teach or co-teach a workshop