Data Carpentry

This wiki supports the Data Carpentry Workshop to be held at the University of Florida at iDigBio September 29-30, 2014. 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)
• Juliet Pulliam (UF)
• 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) http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/e4r9cm91cjg/event/login.html
  • You must RSVP that the required software is installed, prior to the workshop.
    • Instructors are available to help
  • 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	All
9:00-10:00	Better use of spreadsheets, part I	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
10:30-12:00	Introduction to R	François Michonneau
12:00-1:30	Lunch (Demo)
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: How to integrate R in your workflow	François Michonneau
4:30-5:00	Sharing your data and your results: RMarkdown and Figshare	François Michonneau
5:00-5:30	Review / Wrap up / Evaluation and Feedback

Future plan: Scaling it up: Demo using the iPlant Discovery Environment (DE)

Logistics

• Logistics
• Hotel (for the out-of-towners)
• 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 and Links

• links to any presentations (like power points) here.
• GitHub repository for Data Carpentry Workshop at iDigBio
• EtherPad Data Carpentry at iDigBio workshop notes

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.