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).

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Planning Team

• François Michonneau (FLMNH - iDigBio)
• Katja Seltmann (TTD-TCN, AMNH)
• Matt Collins (ACIS - iDigBio)
• Dan Stoner (ACIS - iDigBio)
• Deborah Paul (FSU - iDigBio)
• Tracy K. Teal (BEACON)
• Pam Soltis (FLMNH - iDigBio PI)
• Derek Masaki (USGS)
• Shari Ellis (iDigBio)
• Kevin Love (iDigBio)
• Mike Smorul (SESYNC)
• and assistance from Nirav Merchant at iPlant.

Workshop Evaluation

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

Agenda

• pre-workshop meeting (online)
  • Software installed?
  • Instructors available
  • Questions?
• pre-workshop meeting / dinner day before
  • All welcome. Place/time TBA.

Course Overview - Day 1
8:30-9:00 Introductions / Overview / Why Data Carpentry? / How to organize data projects
9:00-10:00 Better use of spreadsheets (Tracy Teal)
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Better use of spreadsheets part II (Tracy Teal)
12:00-1:30 Lunch (with OpenRefine Demo - Deb Paul)
1:30-3:00 SQL Introduction (Matt Collins)
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 SQL part II (Matt Collins)
5:00-5:30 Review / Wrap up for tomorrow


Course Overview - Day 2
8:30-10:00 Introduction to the shell (Tracy Teal)
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:30 Introduction to R (François Michonneau)
12:30-1:30 Lunch (with OpenRefine Demo - Deb Paul)
1:30-3:00 Manipulating and plotting data in R (François Michonneau)
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Getting data in and out of R/Integrating R in your workflow (François Michonneau)
4:30-5:00 Scaling it up: DEMO using iPlant Discovery Environment (DE) (François Michonneau, ...)
5:00-5:30 Advanced Shell (Matt C.)
5:30-6:00 Review / Wrap up / Evaluations and Feedback
Thank you!

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]
• [3:30-6pm]

Day2

• [8:30am-10:00am]
• [10:30am-12:00pm]
• [1:00pm-3:00pm]
• [3:30-6pm]

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.