Oct 17–18, 2024
9:00am – 5:00pm CEST
Instructors: Marianne Corvellec, Marie Houillon
Helpers: Valérie Cognat, Valentine Gilbart, Julien Godet
The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
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Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: IEEPI: Training Room, Cardo, IEEPI Institut Européen Entreprises Propriété Intellectuelle, 7 rue de l'Écarlate, 67000 Strasbourg. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
When: Oct 17–18, 2024; 9:00am – 5:00pm CEST Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. We do not require participants to provide documentation of disabilities or disclose any unnecessary personal information. However, we do want to help create an inclusive, accessible experience for all participants. We encourage you to share any information that would be helpful to make your Carpentries experience accessible. To request an accommodation for this workshop, please fill out the accommodation request form. If you have questions or need assistance with the accommodation form please email us.
Glosario is a multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms. The glossary helps learners attend workshops and use our lessons to make sense of computational and programming jargon written in English by offering it in their native language. Translating data science terms also provides a teaching tool for Carpentries Instructors to reduce barriers for their learners.
Contact: Please email cobolet@unistra.fr , marianne.corvellec@ens-lyon.org or marie.houillon@kit.edu for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.
Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
| Before starting | Pre-workshop survey |
| Morning | Project Organization and Management |
| Introduction to the Command Line | |
| Afternoon | Continuation: Introduction to the Command Line |
| Evening | END |
| Morning | Data Wrangling and Processing |
| Afternoon | Continuation: Data Wrangling and Processing |
| Evening | Post-workshop survey |
| END |
To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
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.
The setup instructions for the Data Carpentry Genomics workshops can be found at the workshop overview site. In this workshop, we will run commands and programs on local machines, hence falling within "Option B" of the setup instructions.
All participants are expected to have installed the software described in the above-mentioned setup instructions before joining the workshop. If you have trouble installing the software on your machine, please get in touch with the instructors by e-mail and/or come 30 minutes earlier on the first day of the workshop.
Below, we provide additional useful details about the setup.
The programs which will be used during this workshop are easier to install and use on Linux or macOS. As a consequence, if using a Mac or Linux machine is not possible, we advise Windows users to install and use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
In order to use some programs, it is necessery to have Java installed.
Please note that the setup instructions for macOS are meant for Macs with an Intel chip.
For participants having a Mac with an Apple chip,