Hi Kari, I would start by asking what do you want them to do after the workshop?
Nobody learns to programme in 1 day (or 2 for that matter). Do you want them to be inspired to attend/organise/initiate a SWC/DC workshop at their home organisations? Or maybe just get them interested enough to start exploring the web for opportunities to learn about topics like tools for automation, data cleaning, analysis and visualisation, etc. Once you know what you want them to do with the information you provided, you can plan how you can get them to do that through your choice of content and delivery. I'm in agreement about the Spreadsheet lesson. It's a simple and short lesson to teach but gives you plenty of opportunity to put out bait that might attract people to learn how to work more efficiently with data. It can also tie in nicely with almost any of our other lessons. Everyone I've ever met gave positive feedback about the spreadsheet lesson. Few people are taught to structure data properly as early as possible to make it easier later on. I saw a very interesting use of the Library Carpentry OpenRefine lesson yesterday. The lesson has a lot of depth and might be appealing to folks with an engineering background if you can relate some of the examples to what they might encounter in their datasets. It also makes you think about the nonsense that are often part of our data which we aren't necessarily aware of. We all just want to rush to get a plot and see what the data is saying. I think still too little emphasis on data cleaning in the not-so-big-data research fields. You could dangle an R or Python plot in front of them as a teaser to encourage them to participate in an upcoming SWC or DC near them. Let us know how it goes? Kind regards, Anelda On 01 Jun 2017 4:33 PM, "Kari L. Jordan, PhD" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone have a one-day workshop syllabi based on Carpentry material? > Myself and two other instructors are writing an abstract to do a one-day > pre-con workshop at the Professional Development Conference for the > National Society of Black Engineers. We'd like to cover the most useful > topics, and we only have one day. > > If you've done a one-day workshop, what did you cover? How did it go? What > tips can you give us? > > Thanks! > klj > > -- > > Kari L. Jordan, Ph.D. > > Deputy Director of Assessment > > Data Carpentry > > www.datacarpentry.org > > Request a meeting with me <https://calendly.com/kariljordan/> > > -- > > I'm speaking at JupyterCon in New York August 23–25, 2017. > http://oreil.ly/2oeY6A3 #JupyterCon > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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