Overview of Software and Data Carpentry and our approach to community building.

1. So#ware and Data Carpentry: Building
Skills and Perspec:ves to Enable Data-
Driven Research
Jonah Duckles and Tracy Teal
Execu&ve Director
So/ware Carpentry
jduckles@so/ware-carpentry.org
@jduckles
Available at h+p://jduck.net/presenta8ons
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2. Are we using the right tools?
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3. What are the right tools?
With growing rate of data accumula3on,
there is an acute need for all researchers
to learn about:
• Repea&ng common tasks
• cleaning/reading/processing data
• sharing code for common tools and
methods
• collabora&ng with code
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4. Departure point
Research organiza.on leaders
seek to build sustained
capacity
Researchers need to build and
expand on data skills
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5. Technical consul-ng
doesn't scale
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6. Online training and MOOCS
can leave people frustrated, without a community to
help them
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7. Our approach is to build community
and capacity through peer instruc1on
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8. What goes into preparing a workshop with
IMPACT
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10. Impac&ul Workshops
• Trained volunteers
• Drawn from the research communi6es
we serve
• Good community developed lessons
• Passion to apply the skills and spread
the community
• A mission to change the culture of how
research is done
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11. Instructors
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12. Instructor training
• We train researchers how to teach
technical skills:
• pedagogical approaches
• take into account learner's
background
• reducing cogni8ve load
• give and receive construc8ve
feedback
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13. Teaching as performance art
• Excitement
• Engagement
• Passion for the topic
• Improv
• Lessons are a loosely sketched script
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14. Lessons
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15. Preparing the unconscious
mind
• Two day constraint
• N.R.F. Maier's two cords experiment
• Problem solving skills can be
inaccessible to the conscious mind
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16. Jugyokenkyu - lesson study
• Coordinated collabora/on, tes/ng and
con/nuous improvement of lessons.
• Collabora/on on lessons, conversa/on
about teaching of lessons
• Instructor community that discusses the
ongoing improvement of a lessons
• Kaizen of teaching
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19. Community
• Cul%va%ng a community and culture
requires ongoing and inten%onal work
• Code of Conduct and enforcement
• Ac%ve mentoring of instructors
• Collabora%ve lesson development
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20. Learners
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21. Our workshops are welcoming and relevant to all disciplines
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22. We achieve a very good gender balance
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23. Results
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24. Adap%ng to learners
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25. Balancing demonstra0on and applica0on
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26. Learners percep*on of Instructors
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27. Mo#va#ng Future Learning
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28. How to get yourself involved?
h"p://so(ware-carpentry.org/join/
• newsle'er
• mailing list
• github
• open calls for instructor training
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29. How to get your organiza/on
involved?
h"p://so(ware-carpentry.org/scf/join
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30. Partnership Tiers
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31. Thank You to our supporters!
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32. Thank You!
Jonah Duckles, Execu1ve Director
jduckles@so+ware-carpentry.org
Become a partner: h.p://so1ware-carpentry.org/scf/join/
Get involved: h-p://so1ware-carpentry.org/join/
Twi$er: @swcarpentry @jduckles
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