Thanks for sending these, Ethan. What is the general protocol for approval of 
this type of thing by SWC/DC? I suspect “approval” is not the right word, but 
were one to explode the 2 day workshop into component pieces of whatever 
flavor, can we still brand it as “carpentry”? I’ve been considering this at my 
institution and, being a new guy around here, don’t want to get into hot water 
with the SWC/DC side.

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From: Ethan White <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 8:07 AM
To: Adam Obeng <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [Discuss] SWC material as a semester long course?

Hi Adam,

I have run semester long versions of SWC in Python 
(http://www.programmingforbiologists.org/programming/) and Data Carpentry in R 
(http://www.datacarpentry.org/semester-biology/). They were 16 week classes, 
but with fewer hours per class, so they add up to about the same number of 
contact hours. Hopefully those syllabi and resources will be of some use.

Regarding funding, both of these courses were included in the broader impacts 
type sections of grants, which made it possible to support some of this work.

Best,
Ethan

On 02/15/2016 09:39 AM, Adam Obeng wrote:
To revive the topic:

I'm teaching a summer class at Columbia (3 hours/2x per week/6 weeks), which is 
titled "Social Statistics", but into which I plan to integrate SWC material. 
This happened partly for fortuitous reasons: I don't have a separate lab 
session, so I get a computer lab for every class (why not live code); the 
existing syllabus uses Stata (why not rewrite the whole thing as R in jupyter 
notebooks); I have the same latitude over the "lab" content as I would if I was 
a TA.

Any advice on putting together a syllabus like this would be appreciated! In 
particular, I'm trying to work out how much time to spend on basic R concepts 
vs. cookbook recipes for particular analyses. I don't think I'll have time for 
anything outside of the R and Reproducible R lessons, except for a bare minimum 
shell stuff (paths, etc.). I also anticipate that it might be a challenge to 
separate out the stats and programming concepts, so that the students 
understand that the R way of doing something is an implementation rather than a 
definition.

Also, any heads-up on whether there is funding available somewhere to support 
developing this?


Cheers,

Adam



On Sat, Oct 4, 2014, at 08:59 PM, Daniel Chen wrote:
Is anyone writing about this? otherwise I will since I asked the question :p

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Greg Wilson 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Would someone like to summarize this thread in a blog post?  I've learned a 
lot, and I'm sure other people would too...

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