Data Carpentry

The redesigned lesson will replace the existing version in the curriculum in July.

The three lesson programs' blog posts have been merged into The Carpentries blog

Trialing a reimagined version of the popular Data Carpentry lesson: Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists.

Community leaders who will guide project strategy for Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry

Announcing the stable release of a new curriculum teaching image processing skills. Sign up to host a workshop today!

Guide the development of Software Carpentry, Library Carpentry, or Data Carpentry

Strengthening community leadership for Software, Library, and Data Carpentry

Interested in teaching skills at the intersection of data science and astronomy? Sign up for onboarding or to host a workshop today.

This post covers the instructor's experiences teaching an online Data Carpentry workshop in Iran

Lessons learned during the author's first attendance at a Data Carpentry workshop

Learn more about running the Carpentries semi-asynchronously.

Nos complace anunciar una nueva lección traducida por la comunidad: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python

We are excited to announce our newest community-driven lesson translation: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python

Working to update the Genomics lessons

What we can do in workshops to help people with dyslexia

Work first-hand on developing our ever growing instructor pool.

Bringing Carpentries Training to the Federal Reserve Board

We're committed to a friendly and respectful community for learning, teaching and contributing

Background to the workshop and lessons learned

Data Carpentry workshops have made a meaningful impact on the way learners view their ability to complete computational tasks.

Please welcome her to our staff!

Dr. Kari L. Jordan joins Data Carpentry as the new Deputy Director of Assessment

There are now opportunities to be partners with Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry

Mark your calendar, the first joint Carpentries Bug BBQ will take place April 12-13!

We’re planning our first lesson release - learn how you can contribute!

When did you realize you belonged to the Carpentry community?

Share your knowledge to help others work more efficiently

“Over 75 pull requests from the Issue Bonanza and Bug BBQ”

Two days of bug squashing coming up!

Be a part of a committee that ensures that our community continues to thrive on diversity of thought and perspective.

“Be part of a team providing oversight, vision, and leadership for Carpentry curriculum.”

“Get involved as we prepare to publish two new Data Carpentry curricula”

“Get involved as we prepare for our first Issue Bonanza and Bug BBQ on the Data Carpentry Genomics lessons”

Stand for election to the joint Steering Committee of the merged Carpentries organization

We’re starting a new round of mentoring groups, centered on specific lessons.

What is data science? What are the core competencies?

The Carpentries seek your involvement in developing conduct-related policy.

A grant to rOpenSci from Helmsley Charitable Trust supports a collaboration with Data Carpentry to develop training for the use and publication of open data.

Building on Data Carpentry's core strength of collaborative lesson development.

Discussion of our workshop survey results

Thanks for all his amazing and inspirational work

“Here’s what we accomplished.”

Announcing a Data Carpentry Blog

Want to teach data science skills to people working with weather, climate and ocean data?

Announcing a Data Carpentry Genomics and Assessment Hackathon

The Netherlands eScience Center in collaboration with University Medical Center Utrecht, SURFsara and DTL/ELIXIR-NL organized one of the first Data Carpentry Genomics workshops in Europe.

ELIXIR sponsored Data Carpentry workshop

First Data Carpentry workshop in Africa at the TDWG conference

Already a Software Carpentry instructor? Become a Data Carpentry instructor too!

Promoting the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data

Curriculum added to Data Carpentry to further support training in reproducible research

Workshop fees to increase for workshops scheduled after September 1, 2015 to help with organization sustainability

The process of developing GitHub labels for our lessons.

We’re planning our first lesson release - learn how you can contribute!

Creating a transparent and community-driven communications strategy.

“Hundreds of contributors to the Ecology lessons first official release”

Help prepare the Genomics lessons for release in June!

Want to teach geospatial skills? Sign up for onboarding or to host a pilot workshop today.

Meet other instructors and help the community grow.

We are very pleased to announce that we've received a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

“No matter how hard I practice I’ll never be able to dunk a basketball.”

Guidelines and directions for Data Carpentry

News from the pilot of the spatial data Data Carpentry workshop

We’re releasing a new version of the Carpentry Instructor Training curriculum - learn how you can help!

We're hiring a Deputy Director of Assessment to study the impact we are having

We're hiring an Associate Director to lead community engagement and education efforts

Suggestions and perspectives on how to select a license for your data publication

A short guide on how to contribute and be involved during The Carpentries Bug BBQ.

Linking self-efficacy to learner success in carpentry workshops.

Working with hosts and instructors on workshop access

Analysis of checkout completion rates and time to first workshop for new instructors

“Building community through training and coding”

Find new pathways to a range of Carpentries' materials

“We release our new merged website to celebrate our new merged identity, and to complement information in The Carpentries Handbook.”

This post will cover the topics discussed and their resolutions.

With the help of our community we added skills-based questions to our surveys!

How our community uses data skills in their work

Applicants for the 2018 Merged Carpentries Steering Committee

Use our meetups page to find Carpenters at conferences

'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.' - African Proverb

Community members engage during the mentoring groups virtual showcase.

Thank you to all of our amazing applicants!

“Here’s what we accomplished.”

A discussion of learner outcomes more than six months after attending a Carpentries workshop.

Ireland the venue for inaugural CarpentryCon

Outcomes from focus group to discuss Data Carpentry’s survey instruments

Applications are now open for R instructor training

Data Carpentry launches Skills-Based Pre- and Post-Workshop Surveys

Two open instructor training classes this fall

Report back from the Curriculum Development Hackathon for Reproducible Research using Jupyter Notebooks and the Moore Foundation Early Career Researcher Symposium

Apply to participate!

The importance of formative assessment

Mentoring groups provide experienced instructors with the chance to help small groups develop confidence in teaching, lesson maintenance and community building.

Attend our new ‘Run a Workshop!’ office hours.

Join the community call to connect with other instructors & get activity updates

Recognizing volunteers for their outstanding work in the community.

Announcing publication of a Data Carpentry curriculum for social scientists.

Instructor training event will take place in Potchefstroom, North-West Province, South Africa from 17 - 20 April 2016

Several workshops starting off Data Carpentry in 2016

“An updated history of how new Instructors become certified”

Requesting community feedback on workshops for for-profit organizations

Ecology workshop and study group

Formative assessment for instructors!

“How to navigate the inevitably awkward.”

A brief review of the past year and plans for the year ahead

CarpentryCon 2018 Needs YOUR help

Dr. Erin Becker starts as the new Data Carpentry Associate Director

Here's what we accomplished

Here's what we accomplished

At the beginning of November, Belgium held its first Data Carpentry workshop.