Online
August 16 - 18, 2021
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Instructors: Jon Jablonski, Britta Schumacher
Helpers: Kristi Liu, Amelia Meyer, Melanie Leung
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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: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.
When: August 16 - 18, 2021. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must have access to a computer 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 dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.
Contact: Please email library-collaboratory@ucsb.edu for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.
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.
We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
| 09:00 | Zoom Carpentry Intro and Setup |
| 09:20 | Rstudio Intro |
| 09:35 | Project Management With RStudio |
| 09:50 | Data Structures part 1 |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 | Exploring Data Frames |
| 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:50 | Wrap-up |
| 09:00 | Review |
| 09:20 | Data Structures (wrapup) |
| 09:30 | Data Frame Manipulation |
| 10:10 | Break |
| 10:20 | Introcution to Visualization: ggplot2 |
| 10:55 | Writing Data |
| 11:15 | Control Flow (part 1) |
| 11:50 | Wrap-up |
| 09:00 | Review |
| 09:15 | Control Flow (part 2) |
| 09:45 | ggplot2 PLUS |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 11:05 | Publishing to the Web |
| 11:30 | Wrap-up |
To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need to install the software listed below.
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.
If you haven't used Zoom before, go to the official website to download and install the Zoom client for your computer.
Like other Carpentries workshops, you will be learning by "coding along" with the Instructors. To do this, you will need to have both the window for the tool you will be learning about (a terminal, RStudio, your web browser, etc..) and the window for the Zoom video conference client open. In order to see both at once, we recommend using one of the following set up options: