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Research Workshops and Training: Carpentry Courses

Outlines for the workshops and training offered for student and staff researchers at the University of Canterbury.

Get a handle on your data

Data Carpentry is a modular course over two days (or four half days spread over whatever time works for you) designed to get researchers comfortable with using discipline specific data.  Though it uses a number of tools, the main focus is on the data management pipeline: gathering, handling, visualizing and publishing.  It is a companion to the Software Carpentry workshop program, and modules from that can be added as well.

2024 Carpentry Courses

Software Carpentry is a programme of courses for the absolute novice to get acquainted with computational topics in academic research.  We offer a range of sessions in:

  • Programming (using R or Python)
  • Version Control (using git)
  • Data Handling and Cleaning
  • Relational Data (using SQL)

 

You may want to book for a series of courses to get an idea of what tools are available.  All the courses will include help with local UC computing resources and support.

 

Software Carpentry 2024

Software Carpentry: R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis Tuesday July 16 2024 9:00-12:00
Software Carpentry: Programming with Python Thursday July 25 2024 13:00-16:00
Software Carpentry: Version Control with Git Tuesday August 13 2024 13:00-16:00
Software Carpentry: Programming with R Wednesday September 25 2024 13:00-16:00
Software Carpentry: SQL Thursday October 10 2024 13:00-16:00
Software Carpentry:Open Refine Monday October 21 2024 13:00-16:00
Software Carpentry: The Unix Shell Thursday November 7 2024 9:00-12:00
Software Carpentry: Programming with Python Monday November 25 2024 13:00-16:00

Who to Contact

Anton Angelo

Phone: +6433693853
Internal Phone: 93853

The Carpentries

This workshop uses modules taken from the Carpentries; a community effort that develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Their mission is to provide researchers high-quality, domain-specific training covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research.

For more information see the official Software Carpentry website.