1. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Data Carpentry Aleksandra Pawlik Software Sustainability Institute Data Science Club, 17 th March 2016

2. Software Sustainability Institute Why Data Carpentry  Data pain & frustration  Inefficient data analysis workflows Materials and workshops to train researchers in good data analysis and management practices to enable open and reproducible research.

3. Software Sustainability Institute Target audience Data + spreadsheets + some statistics and…? Some knowledge of scripting, using workflow tools, command line programming (R, Python…), structured data, metadata, building workflows, automating tasks Disciplines ecology genomics sociology digital humanities neuroscience geosciences …. Career PhD students postdoctoral researchers research assistants researchers in industry …. SKILLS Full computational lab skillset

4. Software Sustainability Institute Workshops & curriculum Workshops 2 days Hands-on Qualified instructors Helpers Post-it notes! Curriculum and materials Different for different research areas Workshops “per discipline” Existing materials – biology and genomics Planned: astrophysics, geoscience, nuclear physics, image analysis (neuroscience) and biodiversity as well as… …anything that the community wants to develop and contribute to.

5. Software Sustainability Institute Example: biology workshop

6. Software Sustainability Institute Materials Freely available via the website http://www.datacarpentry.org/lessons/ Collaboratively developed via GitHub https://github.com/datacarpentry

7. Software Sustainability Institute Thank you! Questions?