Dear All, A lesson development sprint on Data Carpentry Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with Python <https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/geospatial-python/> will take place on Thursday and Friday this week (7 & 8 January). Community members are welcome to get involved and help further the development of the lesson. You can read more about the sprint below, and on this etherpad: https://pad.carpentries.org/XyOFk2kAyBGw9IJuk1t7
Much of this lesson has already been written and taught and this sprint will be a chance to push the remaining content towards completion. All community members interested in helping to improve Carpentries lesson materials are welcome to get involved and participation from those with experience working with geospatial data in Python would be particularly welcome. Please read on for more information about the lesson and the focus of the drive. __About the lesson and sprint__ The Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with Python <https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/geospatial-python/> lesson has been in development since September 2019. The first seven episodes of the lesson were completed and first taught in February 2020 for the NASA DEVELOP program, where participants learned how to use geospatial python to manipulate raster data for their 10-week applied research projects. Since then, new episodes have been added, for working with shapefiles with geopandas, and the rest of the lesson has been cleaned up. In this upcoming sprint, the developers are looking to push forward and finish more advanced topics like munging and visualizing raster time series and calculating zonal statistics, as well as other improvements that participants are interested in working on. For an overview of how these materials have been taught, see this previous blog post: https://carpentries.org/blog/2020/03/teaching-a-new-geospatial-python-lesson/ __Connection Details__ Ryan Avery will host a Zoom call at 17:30 UTC on 7 and 8 January 2021 to kick off each sprint day (see the event time converted to your local timezone here <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=DC+Python+Geospatial+Lesson+Sprint+Kick-off&iso=20210107T1730&p1=1440&am=30>). More details of the schedule and a Zoom connection link can be found on this etherpad: https://pad.carpentries.org/XyOFk2kAyBGw9IJuk1t7 __Contact__ For more information about the sprint, please contact Ryan Avery: [email protected] -- Dr Toby Hodges (he/him) Curriculum Community Developer The Carpentries | https://carpentries.org Schedule a meeting with me: https://calendly.com/tobyhodges <https://calendly.com/tobyhodges> ------------------------------------------ This list is for the purpose of general discussion about The Carpentries including community activities, upcoming events, and announcements. Some other lists you may also be interested in include discuss-hpc, discuss-r, and our local groups. Visit https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/ to learn more. All activity on this and other Carpentries spaces should abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct found here: https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tf6ea058ec612b3b5-M6719dc6fcd7bb8a7ff2d5180 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
