General Information

Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data.

We will cover Data organization in spreadsheets and OpenRefine, Introduction to R, Data analysis and visualization in R and SQL for data management. Participants should bring their laptops and plan to participate actively. By the end of the workshop learners should be able to more effectively manage and analyze data and be able to apply the tools and approaches directly to their ongoing research.

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers.

Where: Babbidge Library, Electronic Classroom on Level 2. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. The room of the workshop is located across the lobby from the stairs and elevators.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Data Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: Please mail carolyn.mills@uconn.edu for more information.

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Preliminary Schedule

Etherpad: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/2016-03-07-uconn.
We will use this Etherpad for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code. In addition to the etherpad page, we've duplicated the final version of the etherpad here, for posterity.

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Resources

If you'd like to continue developing your coding skills, we've consolidated a list of our favorite resources and links from the etherpad to help you.

• Data Carpentry Spreadsheets lessons
• Data Carpentry OpenRefine lessons
• OpenRefine screencasts
• Data Carpentry Data Analysis and Visualization in R lessons
• R data wrangling cheatsheet
• ggplot2 cheatsheet
• Rseek, to search for help with R
• Cookbook for R, general-purpose help for many R functions
• Data Carpentry SQL lessons
• Software Carpentry lessons, to help you expand your skills in computer programming (consider taking another workshop!)

Setup

To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need working copies of the described software. Please make sure to install everything (or at least to download the installers) before the start of your workshop. Participants should bring and use their own laptops to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow once you leave the workshop.

Please follow these Setup Instructions

We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.

Instructors