SCINet is excited to sponsor Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry courses.
The Carpentries teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. These courses are offered to ARS staff looking to advance their computational skills sets in support of their research. ARS staff and skilled Carpentries instructors will be available during these hands-on trainings to facilitate your learning.
If you have a training request that is not being offered at this time, please complete this short training request form to let us know.
If you are interested in becoming a Carpentries Instructor, please email SCINet-training@usda.gov.
Offered Trainings
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The Carpentries Unix, Git and R Workshop
In this interactive, hands-on workshop, you will learn basic programming tools and concepts for the Unix Shell, Git and version control and R.
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Genomics Carpentry
This workshop will be held October 23-25, from 12:30-5 pm EDT.
The focus of the workshop is on working with genomics data, and data management and analysis for genomics research, including best practices for organization of bioinformatics projects and data, use of command line utilities, use of command line tools to analyze sequence quality and perform variant calling, and connecting to and using cloud computing.
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Software Carpentry with R (Including Git)
Course will be conducted over 4 days in 4-hour sessions.
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Software Carpentry with Python (Including Git)
Course will be conducted over 4 days in 4-hour sessions.
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Software Carpentry with R (Including Git)
Course will be conducted over 4 days in 4-hour sessions.
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Software Carpentry with Python
Course will be conducted over 4 days in 4-hour sessions.
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Geospatial Workshop
The SCINet Office is collaborating with The Carpentries to provide a Geospatial Workshop. This workshop will provide instruction for working with geospsatial data using R.
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Software Carpentries
SCINet sponsored a Software Carpentry workshop covering the Unix Shell, version control with Git, and plotting and programming with Python.
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Software Carpentries
Software Carpentry workshop covering UNIX, GIT, and Python
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Data Carpentries
Remote
SCINet sponsored a Data Carpentry workshop covering Python, SQL and OpenRefine supporting 20 USDA participants.
To complete this training on your own, visit the online materials at https://jas58.github.io/2022-02-16-usda-online/.
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Software Carpentry Workshop on Shell, Git, and R for USDA
ARS scientists Jonathan Shao and Amanda Hulse-Kemp, along with two other non-ARS instructors (Jacob Deppen, Preethy Nair), held a 2-day Software Carpentry workshop covering Shell, Git, and R for 20 USDA participants.
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Software Carpentry Workshop on Shell, Git, and Python for USDA
Instructors from The Carpentries with the help of ARS scientists Kathy Yeater, Anna Childers, and Steve Schroeder held a 2-day Software Carpentry workshop covering Shell, Git, and Python for 20 USDA participants.
