Hi Andrea, Monash University, Bioinformatics Platform and Data Fluency initiative. We have drop-in sessions that are something like the "coding support" part of your idea, with a focus on data analysis. It's a time when bioinformaticians and HPC specialists are available to consult. Someone available for statistical consulting is also good. It's good to have someone to greet people who turn up and point them at someone who might be able to answer their question. We and people who turn up also code away on our own projects during the sessions, and often have a beer afterwards.
We've also had talks during these sessions, and also coding challenges and a book club during this time (which have only been partial successes). People will still turn up with data analysis problems, so it tends to split into a group listening to the talk or taking part in the activity and other people separately consulting about their problems. One interesting thing that has worked quite well is to a set up a video conference just for people within the room so that people can easily share their screen to the projector. This has lead to some entertaining live coding with audience suggestions. regards, Paul Harrison ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tec4f62b8959dc111-Mad68d246e498ca37aa63886a Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
