Data Carpentry

This wiki supports the Data Carpentry Workshop to be held at the University of Florida at iDigBio. (Date to be announced). It is the first in a series of four biodiversity informatics workshops planned in the upcoming year (2014-2015).

Workshop Evaluation

• link to pre-workshop survey
• link here at end of workshop

Agenda

• pre-workshop meeting (online)
• pre-workshop meeting / dinner day before?
• course overview
  • Excel
    • Data Quality (Open Refine, other tools)
  • Shell
  • Excel to SQL
  • R
    • Graphs, Mapping
  • Repeatable Workflows
• attendee list

Logistics

• Logistics
• Where to find food
• Workshop Announcement

Remote Participation

Remote participation will be provided via Adobe Connect: [room URL to be decided]

• Remote can join those present for notes in (Google Doc) or (MoPad)?

Presentation Documents

• links to any presentations (like power points) here.

Workshop Recordings

Day 1

• [8:30am-10:00am]
• [10:30am-12:00pm]
• [1:00pm-3:00pm]
• [3:30-5pm]

Day2

• [8:30am-10:00am]
• [10:30am-12:00pm]
• [1:00pm-3:00pm]
• [3:30-5pm]

Data Carpentry Resources and Links

• Inaugural Data Carpentry Workshop by Tracy K. Teal
• Our First Data Carpentry Workshop by Karen Cranston
• Tales from the First Data Carpentry Workshop by Deb Paul
• Data Carpentry Materials on GitHub
• Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data. Goodman et al
• Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner's Guide. Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro Chicago Booth and NBER March 10,2014
• Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data. White et al.