leveraging the community for skills training - presented by Dr Rebecca Lange at the Accelerate your Data training event in Perth 17 May 2018

1. Leveraging the community for skills
training
Dr. Rebecca Lange
Curtin Institute for Computation

2. Leveraging the community for skills training
Teaching
★ The Carpentries
★ Research Bazaar
Ongoing Support
★ Hacky Hour

3. ★ teach foundational computational,
coding, and data science skills to
researchers
★ workshops are in-person events,
generally two days long
★ global community of volunteers
★ Carpentry certified instructors are
trained in pedagogy
★ lessons are freely available under
the Creative Commons -
Attribution License

4. Software Carpentry workshops cover core computing skills for researchers

5. Data Carpentry workshops are domain-specific

6. ResBaz
★ worldwide festival promoting digital
literacy in modern research.
★ Day 1 & 2: Software Carpentry, Data
Carpentry, and advanced stream(s)
★ Day 3: Community Day incl. short
tutorials, talks and discussion
sessions
★ delivered by data service providers
and individual researchers from the
local community
★ volunteer driven

7. Learning to code on your own != trivial

8. Hacky Hour /
Code Review /
StandardError
What is it?
★ Regular meetup designed to build
a community around
○ data
○ coding/programming
○ reproducible research
★ Talk about code & methods
★ Encourage good practices, stylistic
choices
★ Ask questions

9. Hacky Hour /
Code Review /
StandardError
Benefits
★ Learn new packages, best
practices
★ See various levels of code and
improve your own
★ Have someone to talk to, have
help catching bugs
★ Brainstorm design
★ build confidence in new skills (eg
after attending a carpentries
workshop)

10. Support from the community!
Hacky Hour
★ Curtin: Every Wednesday 3pm-4pm,
Library Makerspace, @CUHackyHour
★ UWA: Friday, 10am, Hackett Hall Cafe,
@HackyHourUWA
★ QEII: Friday, Coffee Anatomy,
@QEII_HackyHour
★ Murdoch: Tuesday, 10am, Launchpad
Area A, @HackyH_Murdoch
Carpentries Workshops
★ planned for semester breaks
➡ check our webpage
ResBaz
★ Planning will commence shortly
➡ possibly at Curtin + worldwide
@CurtinIC
www.computation.curtin.edu.au
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