Remix at will! -- Titus Brown, [email protected]
> On May 10, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Van Tuyl, Steven <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Titus, > > What a great activity for interconnecting the things we teach in DC > (specifically the pieces you mention – spx best practices, open refine, intro > to R). If you don’t mind, I’ll go ahead and steal this! > > steve > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Steve Van Tuyl > Digital Repository Librarian > Oregon State University Libraries & Press > web | http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/staff/vantuyls > orcid | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8752-272X > email | [email protected] > phone | 541.737.3492 > > > From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of "C. > Titus Brown" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, May 9, 2016 at 10:53 AM > To: Steven Haddock <[email protected]> > Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Motivating Tidy Data practices to early stage > researchers > > Thanks, Steve — the idea was taken more or less wholesale from a class that > Joe Dumit and Duncan Temple Lang ran last summer here at Davis! I only added > my usual theatrics. > > In this case, I had them write them out on notecards and then submit them, > and then I did data entry into Excel in front of them (to good effect - > people were amused by the whole thing). I attach the spreadsheet. > > There were about 40 notecards but it only took about 10 to get the desired > effect… > > For the full workshop, we might enter all this data + more and then show > people how to use the tricks from the Data Carpentry spreadsheet lessons ([0] > designed by Christie Bahlai, Tracy Teal, Deb Paul, and Cam Macdonell) to Do > Better, followed by an intro to Open Refine and finally a bit of RStudio and > R. > > best, > —titus > > [0] http://www.datacarpentry.org/lessons/#ecology-workshop > > > On May 9, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Steven Haddock <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > HI Titus. > > > > The thing about dates and locations is a clever demo (I thought you were > > going to predict their passwords). > > > > How did you follow up on that? Did you read off of the cards and show how > > many different ways the dates and locations were formatted? > > > > -Steve > > > > > >> On May 9, 2016, at 09:18 , C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I made the following presentation to some pre-DVM (Veterinary Medicine) > >> students, in order to motivate their attendance for a half-day workshop > >> later in the summer. I am sure you will all recognize many of the themes > >> :). > >> > >> It seemed to go over well; please make use of the slides however you wish > >> (they are under CC0). I’d love comments but bear in mind this falls under > >> Dr. Wilson’s Rules - if you think I should add something, you have to tell > >> me what to take out in return! > >> > >> best, > >> � > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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