This is a longer set of lessons, but there is plenty of useful stuff here: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhu-data-science <https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhu-data-science>
Sean > On May 24, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Stephanie Labou <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > The economics department at my university is interested in holding a data > bootcamp for some of their students and I’ve been trying to steer them > towards Software/Data Carpentry. (I am a newly certified instructor and would > love to get a workshop under my belt, especially at my home institution.) > > > From my discussions with faculty, they don’t want or need to spend time going > over Excel or SQL (Data Carpentry) and standards of programming (Software > Carpentry) isn’t the goal either. What they want: “…what is really needed is > the workflow from data processing to analysis in R. The content doesn’t need > to be particularly economics focused as long as the data types are relevant. > For example, we want to improve our students ability to work with a range of > data types including time stamped data, and strings, in addition to standard > numeric. Teach them how to write code to clean and process data (merge, > reshape, etc.) that clearly documents what was done and meets standards of > reproducibility. A component on visualization, perhaps a ggplot2 focus, > would also be interesting.” > > > What they’re describing is basically R for reproducible scientific analysis > <http://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/>. Which is great! But I’m > not sure where to go from here – this alone doesn’t make a Software Carpentry > workshop (although it could easily take two days) and although the topics > overlap with Data Carpentry, it doesn’t make a Data Carpentry workshop either. > > > Has anyone used the R for reproducible scientific analysis/intermediate R > <http://resbaz.github.io/r-intermediate-gapminder/> as a two-day workshop? If > so, what did you call it? Can it still somehow fall under the Software/Data > Carpentry banner? (Also, is there a main contact person between the > Carpentrys that I can steer the faculty point person towards? I would hate to > lead them astray, promising a Carpentry workshop when I can’t technically > call it that…) > > > Any and all feedback/suggestions welcome! > > > Thanks, > > > Stephanie > > > ---- > > Stephanie Labou > > > Research Assistant / Data Manager > > Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach > > Washington State University > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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