Hi All, We welcome remote sites (classroom + TAs + interaction) for the following workshops. All are 9:15 am - 12:15 pm Pacific Time. If you are interested in hosting a remote site, reply to this email, making sure to cc Jessica ([email protected]). Contact Jessica with any questions about what this process entails.
1. Regular Expressions & Python - February 17, 2016 (Tiffany Timbers) 2. scipy.optimize - February 19, 2016 (Ariel Rokem) 3. Sphinx, Webhooks, and Bitbucket - February 29th, 2016 (Adelaide Rhodes) All three are taught by veteran instructors and should be quite good -- hope you can host a room! (If you just want to watch the live stream, we will be posting YouTube links on the day of. ---- More background: As you may know, the DIB lab has put on several remotely taught workshops in the past, and streamed them to YouTube using Google Hangouts on Air. See an overview of the process here (Titus's blog on our first local workshop: http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2015-3hr-remote-workshops.html) and here (information page - a bit under construction: https://github.com/dib-lab/dib-training/blob/pub/remote-workshop-info.rst). Basically, remote classrooms are full partners in the Google Hangout, as distinct from people merely watching the stream. 1. Regular Expressions & Python - February 17, 2016 Instructor: Tiffany Timbers, SFU Description: This half-day workshop will introduce the topic of regular expressions (using patterns to match strings) and how it can be implemented in the programming language Python. We will explore examples of using regular expressions find transcription factor binding sites and to find regions of phage DNA (spacers) in bacterial genomes - key parts of the CRISPR bacterial immune system. We will also explore how to build a test suite for regular expression searches to ensure the regular expression pattern matching is accurate. For more information: http://dib-training.readthedocs.org/en/pub/2016-02-17-regular-expressions-python.html 2. scipy.optimize - February 19, 2016 Instructor: Ariel Rokem Description: The scipy.optimize library is part of a Python based collection of open source software for scientific, mathematic, and engineering work called Scipy (http://scipy.org/). In this half-day workshop, we will focus on using this library to find models that are good approximations of data. We will learn how fit different models to experimental data and how to compare different models to each other. For more information: http://dib-training.readthedocs.org/en/pub/2016-02-19-scipy-lr.html 3. Sphinx, Webhooks, and Bitbucket - February 29th, 2016 Instructor: Adelaide Rhodes This workshop will cover using webhooks with Bitbucket to create Web sites that automatically update when you make changes in a Bitbucket repository. Sphinx and reStructuredText will be used to build the underlying Web site. For more information: http://dib-training.readthedocs.org/en/pub/2016-02-29-sph-webh-bitb-lr.html --- --titus _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
