Hi Kari, I hope this finds you well. I agree with Anelda. For a one day workshop, I definitely think that a combination of OpenRefine and Spreadsheets is a great option (depending on the interest of your audience).
We ran a two day workshop yesterday and today in which we covered Spreadsheets, OpenRefine and R. ( https://nwu-digitalhumanities.github.io/2017-05-31-Vaal/). Yesterday morning we covered the OpenRefine and Spreadsheets lessons which were relatively short and our audience seemed quite engaged; whereas yesterday afternoon and today we only covered R and we seemed to have overwhelmed our audience. Spreadsheets and OpenRefine are also a little easier to grasp that a little more intensive programming lessons. I think that the two above lessons can be expanded to include a few more exercises and it would allow for more time to be spent on challenges. This, of course, is if this would be applicable to your audience. Have a great one further! Jacqui Muller On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Anelda van der Walt <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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