Aleks,

Fantastic. This is really good and very helpful to our work here. Thank for and 
your team for creating them. I’ll go through the curriculum over next couple of 
weeks and also see if some our students here at the Institute want to join me. 
I’ll definitely be using them. Great stuff. 


Cheers,


Scott Gruber
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainabilty
Twitter: @scott_gruber
Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>


> On Feb 26, 2020, at 4:20 AM, Aleksandra Nenadic <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Check out these cool training materials: " Data Science for Ecologists and 
> Environmental Scientists",  https://ourcodingclub.github.io/course 
> <https://ourcodingclub.github.io/course>, developed by the Software 
> Sustainability Institute's Fellows Isla Myers-Smith and Gergana Daskalova and 
> a bunch of others (https://ourcodingclub.github.io/team.html 
> <https://ourcodingclub.github.io/team.html>). Their motivation was to help 
> scientists overcome "code fear" and "statistics anxiety" in learners of all 
> ages and from all walks of life and to teach best practice open science. 
> Materials are quite suitable for people from other domains too!
> 
> The course includes three different streams, Stats from Scratch, Wiz of Data 
> Viz and Mastering Modelling, using content mostly in R, but also with the 
> opportunity to learn Python and JavaScript. There are quizzes and practical 
> challenges and people can get certificates for their achievements.
> 
> Authors agreed to add these to the Carpentries Incubator 
> (https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/issues 
> <https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals/issues>). 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Aleks
> 
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