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]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of "C. Titus Brown" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Monday, May 9, 2016 at 10:53 AM To: Steven Haddock <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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