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
2023
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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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Course will be conducted over 4 days in 4-hour sessions.
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Course will be conducted over 4 days in 4-hour sessions.
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Course will be conducted over 4 days in 4-hour sessions.
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Course will be conducted over 4 days in 4-hour sessions.
2022
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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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SCINet sponsored a Software Carpentry workshop covering the Unix Shell, version control with Git, and plotting and programming with Python.
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2020
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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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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.
