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Before we start...
- We are dedicated to providing a welcoming and supportive environment for all people, regardless of background or identity.
https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html
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Go to Instructors or Helpers if you feel the Code of Conduct is being violated.
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There is also a big blue "Report a Code of Conduct Incident" on the course website if you feel the Instructors are not handling appropriately.
The Carpentries is a global volunteer-driven organization dedicated to teaching computational skills to researchers and anyone who works with data.
https://datascience.si.edu/carpentries
The Smithsonian Carpentries Team is made up of Smithsonian staff and fellows from around the institution.
Code along, rather than lecturing from PowerPoint, or just demonstrating
Odds of running into an error are high, but don’t panic – this is a great opportunity to learn
In the real world, we used to use Post-It notes to indicate progress, but for this workshop we'll use the "yes" / "no" buttons in the Zoom Participants panel.
The Instructors will try to build in time between lessons to ask questions, but use the Zoom chat for questions that come up during a lesson.
https://smithsonianworkshops.github.io/2021-05-19-smithsonian-online
https://pad.carpentries.org/2021-05-19-smithsonian-online
A collaborative document – think of it as a stripped-down version of Google Docs
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Go to the EtherPad
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Add your name, unit, and your favorite type of cookie (or other sweet treat) under Attendance Day 1
We will be teaching you data organization, cleaning, and visualization skills, so that your analyses can be easily understoood and reproduced by your colleagues ... and your future self.
We will be teaching you a lot of valuable skills on a demo dataset, but you won't be able to add these tools to your toolbag until you work through how to apply them to your own data.
