Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry Workshops at Boston College and UConn in March

[Bretthauer, David]

Several GREAT researcher training events are coming up in March at BOSTON COLLEGE and at the UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT in STORRS, CT.  Please forward this information to your researchers, and also consider attending: 

 

March 7-8  (two locations, same workshop on same dates)      

• Data Carpentry Workshop at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA, with a health science focus and using R
  Registration Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-college-libraries-data-carpentry-workshop-tickets-20995895288
• Data Carpentry Workshop at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT with an ecology/natural resources focus and using R
  Registration Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/university-of-connecticut-data-carpentry-workshop-tickets-20997062780
  
  

March 21-22      

• Software Carpentry Workshop at University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, with an ecology/natural resources focus and using R
  Registration Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-carpentry-at-university-of-connecticut-registration-21392610875
  
  

Data Carpentry Workshops are designed to teach basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data and are aimed at researchers at all career stages with little or no prior knowledge of programming, shell scripting or command line tools.    For more information, go to datacarpentry.org.

Software Carpentry workshops are intended for researchers who wish to improve their software skills and will cover basic concepts and tools including program design, version control, data management and task automation. For more information, go to softwarecarpentry.org.

 
The workshops are provided by the Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry organizations and are funded by a grant from the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region, awarded to the libraries of both Boston College and the University of Connecticut. Those of you who attended the November Data Tools Forum at UMass Medical School will recognize many of the resources/tools to be covered in this workshop. 

 If you have any questions, please contact either Sally Wyman (sally...@bc.edu) from Boston College or Carolyn Mills (caroly...@uconn.edu) from University of Connecticut.

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