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Data Management Workshops

CEREO regularly hosts workshops covering data management and programming topics.  Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are two of our most common offerings. Carpentry workshops are designed to provide basic training for scientists who want to learn to build, use, validate, and share data using versatile open-source software. By teaching participants fundamental software skills and best practice techniques for working with and analyzing data, workshops help researchers spend more time doing useful research. See a list of our upcoming workshops here.

Data Carpentry workshops introduce the computational skills needed for effective data management and analysis. Instructors guide participants through the data life cycle, with exercises on topics from data cleaning and organization in spreadsheets to data manipulation and visualization with R or Python. These workshops are hands-on and provide a user-friendly and fun environment in which to learn data-driven research skills. Examples of software topics covered include: Data cleaning with OpenRefine, data analysis in R or Python, and data management with SQL.

2019 Workshop Syllabus– Organizer: Matthew Brousil, Instructors: Michael Meyer, Sarah Murphy, Nicholas Potter, Alex Kappes
2019 Final Report

2018 Workshop Syllabus– Organizer: Matthew Brousil, Instructors: Michael Meyer, Sarah Murphy, Nicholas Potter, Jordan Munson, Devi Gurung
2018 Final Report

2017 REU Workshop- Instructor: Stephanie Labou

2017 Workshop Syllabus– Instructor: Stephanie Labou

2015 Workshop Syllabus– Instructors: Kara Woo and Naupaka Zimmerman
2015 Final Report

 

Software Carpentry workshops introduce the computational skills needed for basic research computing. Instructors provide a user-friendly and fun environment in which to learn skills for performing version control, automating research tasks, and producing reproducible analyses. Examples of software topics covered include: the Unix shell, using R or Python for reproducible analyses, and version control with Git.

2020 Workshop Syllabus– Instructors: Matthew Brousil, Michael Meyer, Sarah Murphy, Nicholas Potter, Alex Kappes
Cancelled due to COVID-19

2019 Workshop Syllabus– Instructors: Matthew Brousil, Michael Meyer, Sarah Murphy, Nicholas Potter, Alex Kappes
2019 Final Report

2018 Workshop Syllabus– Instructors: Stephanie Labou, Sarah Murphy, Vikram Ravi, Nicholas Potter

2017 Workshop Syllabus– Instructors: Stephanie Labou and Kara Woo

2015 Workshop Syllabus– Instructors: Kara Woo and Karl Broman
2015 Final Report

 

In addition to Data and Software Carpentry workshops, CEREO also hosts other workshop offerings from time to time. In the past these have included topics such as Google Earth Engine and reproducible research techniques using R.

Reproducible Research Techniques with R (Spring 2021)
2021 Workshop Syllabus– Organizer: Matthew Brousil, Co-instructors: Michael Meyer, Sarah Murphy, Nicholas Potter, Alex Kappes
2021 Final Report

Reproducible Research Techniques with R (Fall 2020)
2020 Workshop Syllabus– Organizer: Matthew Brousil, Co-instructors: Michael Meyer, Sarah Murphy, Nicholas Potter, Alex Kappes
2020 Final Report

Process-based lake modeling in R using GLM-AED2 (Fall 2020)
Organizer: Michael Meyer, Instructor: Robert Ladwig

Google Earth Engine (Fall 2020)
Organizer: Michael Meyer, Instructor: Xiao Yang