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A Data Carpentry Workshop

Arctic Institute of North America (ACUNS) Student Conference

Nov 04-05, 2015

9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Instructors: Cam Macdonell

Helpers:

General Information

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 the Shell, Introduction to Python and the IPython Notebook and Data analysis and visualization in Python/Pandas. 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: Earth Sciences Building, Room 908, University of Calgary. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

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 acuns15@ucalgary.ca for more information.


Schedule

Day 1

09:00 Cleaning Excel Data & OpenRefine
10:30 Coffee
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 Automating tasks with the Unix shell
14:30 Coffee
16:00 Wrap-up

Day 2

09:00 Analyzing Data with Python
10:30 Coffee
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 More Python (continued lesson from the morning)
14:30 Coffee
16:00 Wrap-up

Etherpad: http://pad.software-carpentry.org/2015-11-04-ACUNS.
We will use this Etherpad for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.


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.