Digital Scholarship Centre, University of Oslo

17th October, 2024

09:00-16:00

Instructors: Kyrre Traavik Låberg

Helpers: Espen Rosenquist

General Information

The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.

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Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Where: Moltke Moes vei 39, 0851 Oslo. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

When: 17th October, 2024. Add to your Google Calendar.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).

Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. For workshops at a physical location, the workshop organizers have checked that:

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.

Contact: Please email kyrretl@ub.uio.no or contact-us@carpentry.uio.no for more information.

Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.


Code of Conduct

Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.


Collaborative Notes

We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.


Surveys

Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey

Post-workshop Survey


Schedule

09:00 Intro, Selecting Data, Sorting and Removing Duplicates
10:30 Coffee
10:45 Filtering, Calculating new values
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 Missing Data, Aggregation
14:30 Coffee
14:45 Combining Data, Data Hygiene, Creating and Modifying Data
16:00 Wrap-up

Setup

To participate in a Software Carpentry workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.

We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.

SQLite

  • Download the Windows installer for DB Browser.
  • It will download directly, check your downloads folder and install it on your laptop.
  • NOTE: If you are unable to get admin rights on your laptop, you can download a "portable" version of DB browser that does not require admin to install.
  • But please do install the regular version of DB Browser if you can.
  • Go to the DB Browser download page.
  • Scroll down to the MacOS section and download and install the version of DB Browser that suits your mac.
  • NOTE: If you are unsure if you have an Intel or an Apple Silicon mac, check this help page from apple.
  • Go to the DB Browser download page.
  • Scroll down to the Linux section.
  • Download and install the AppImage or Snap package.