*Hi all,We are excited to announce the initial release of a Data Carpentry curriculum for social scientists <http://www.datacarpentry.org/socialsci-workshop/>! These lessons have been requested and highly anticipated by the growing segment of the Carpentry community working in social science fields and we hope they will serve as a vital resource for this part of our community. These lessons focus around an interview dataset collected between November 2016 and June 2017 from farmers in Tanzania and Mozambique by researchers in the SAFI <http://www.safi-research.org/> (Studying African Farmer-led Irrigation) research project. This dataset includes information about household features (e.g., construction materials used, number of household members), agricultural practices (e.g., water usage), assets (e.g., number and types of livestock) and household members. You can find more information about this dataset on Figshare <https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6262019.v1>. This curriculum teaches best practices for working with rectangular and tidy data and covers data organization in spreadsheets <http://datacarpentry.org/spreadsheets-socialsci/>, data cleaning with OpenRefine <http://www.datacarpentry.org/openrefine-socialsci/>, anddata manipulation and visualization with R <http://www.datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/>. Lessons for teaching SQL and Python with this dataset will be released at a later point.If this curriculum were a piece of software, we would say it is in "beta". The authors of this curriculum have taught it, and it is now ready to be taught by other members of The Carpentries community. We are interested in your feedback to improve it. We wantto ensure it meets the needs and matches the skills that Social Scientists want to acquire when working with data. If you are a social scientist (or studying to become one), please review the lessons <http://datacarpentry.org/socialsci-workshop/> and provide us with your feedback <https://carpentries.typeform.com/to/uMFTgM>. If you are interested in teaching one of the first Social Sciences Data Carpentry workshops, let us know by filling out this form <https://carpentries.typeform.com/to/f8aMxM>.If you will be attending CarpentryCon West <http://ivory.idyll.org/dibsi/> in Davis, CA, please consider coming early (June 27th-28th) to attend a pilot Social Sciences workshop. We’re looking forward to seeing these lessons taught and hearing back from the community to continue to improve our course offerings. Best,Erin*
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