Aug 11-14, 2025
10:00 am - 4:00 PM (Central Time)
Instructors: David Molik, Siddhartha Kanrar, Teresa Shippy
Helpers: Will Tank, Raymond Deiser
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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Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. 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 "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is only available the Kansas State University Community and 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: Hale Library, Room 359, 1117 Mid-Campus Drive North, Manhattan, KS 66506. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. What3Words location: ///regard.silk.basis.
When: Aug 11-14, 2025; 10:00 am - 4:00 PM (Central Time) Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Attendees can use a classroom computer or bring a laptop with access to Excel. Other workshop software and data will be accessed through BeoCat. Attendees who do not already have an active BeoCat account should request one by August 4th
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. We do not require participants to provide documentation of disabilities or disclose any unnecessary personal information. However, we do want to help create an inclusive, accessible experience for all participants. We encourage you to share any information that would be helpful to make your Carpentries experience accessible. To request an accommodation for this workshop, please fill out the accommodation request form. If you have questions or need assistance with the accommodation form please email us.
Glosario is a multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms. The glossary helps learners attend workshops and use our lessons to make sense of computational and programming jargon written in English by offering it in their native language. Translating data science terms also provides a teaching tool for Carpentries Instructors to reduce barriers for their learners.
Workshop Recordings: Carpentries workshops are designed to be interactive rather than lecture-based, with lessons that build upon one another. To foster a positive online learning environment, we strongly recommend that participants join in real time. As a result, workshop recordings are not recommended and may not be available to learners.
Contact: Please email cads@ksu.edu for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.
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.
We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
| Before starting | Pre-workshop survey |
| Morning | Project Organization and Management |
| Lunch | Attendees are expected to find their own lunch, Lunch will be an hour. |
| Afternoon | Introduction to the Command Line |
| Morning | Data Wrangling and Processing |
| Lunch | Attendees are expected to find their own lunch, Lunch will be an hour. |
| Afternoon | Data Wrangling and Processing |
| Morning | Continuation: Data Wrangling and Processing |
| Lunch | Attendees are expected to find their own lunch, Lunch will be an hour. |
| Afternoon | Regular Expressions |
| Morning | Version control with Git |
| After workshop | Post-workshop survey |
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This workshop will taught on Beocat, and setup of files and software will be part of the lesson plan, please see Beocat on how to request a Beocat account.
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