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Please contact us if you are interested in becoming involved in Carpentries at UCO.
Jaina Agan
Instructor and co-organizer
jagan@uco.edu
Nicole Sump-Crethar
Instructor and co-organizer
acrethar@uco.edu
Karl G. Siewert
Instructor
ksiewert@uco.edu
Risa Jensen-Jones
Instructor
rjensenjones@uco.edu
Ryan Maher
Helper
rmaher@uco.edu
Casey Lowry
Helper
clowry3@uco.edu
Juliet Alavicheh
Helper
jalavicheh@uco.edu
From the Carpentries website:
"The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. We train and foster an active, inclusive, diverse community of learners and instructors that promotes and models the importance of software and data in research. We collaboratively develop openly-available lessons and deliver these lessons using evidence-based teaching practices. We focus on people conducting and supporting research.
The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers."
Workshops hosted by UCO are open to all researchers, faculty, staff, and students.
UCO Students will receive STLR credit for attending a workshop series.
Workshops with multiple dates are part of a series in which consecutive sessions build upon material covered in previous sessions. These workshops are co-hosted with Oklahoma State University. Registration typically closes one week before each workshop.
Tidy Data workshops aim to teach basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data so that they can get more done in less time, and with less pain. This lesson was designed to teach the principles of working with data in spreadsheets.
Workshops teaching R and RStudio are designed to introduce novice learners to the basics of the programs R and RStudio. R is a coding language that is designed for statical computing and data analysis/visualization while RStudio is a free and open-source application that can serve as an interface for using R. The workshop will cover the basics of R and teach you how to start working with data using R and RStudio. Some topics covered include importing CSV files, using and manipulating data frames, and an introduction to data visualization with ggplot.
OpenRefine is a powerful free and open-source tool for working with messy data, cleaning it and transforming it from one format into another. Workshops teaching OpenRefine will teach you to use OpenRefine to clean and format data effectively and automatically track any changes that you make. This workshop will also introduce learners to regular expressions, which are used in a lot of programming and searching applications to enable sophisticated pattern matching by using a combination of symbols and characters to search through a longer piece of text.
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