FYI -- Joshua J. Waterfall Senior Research Fellow Genetics Branch, CCR, NCI, NIH [email protected] @JoshWaterfall
________________________________ From: Thomas, Adam (NIH/NIMH) [E] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 3:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Greg Wilson, Ph.D., Wed, May 20, 2 pm, Bldg 40, How to Help Ten Thousand Scientists For the inaugural lecture of the Data Science Collaborative Lecture Series, the NIH/OD Office of Data Science and the NIMH will be welcoming Greg Wilson from the Software Carpentry Foundation. Greg is an engaging and knowledgeable advocate for best practices in scientific computing (see his recent PLOS Biology paper) that facilitate reproducibility and collaboration. Greg will be speaking on Software and Data Carpentry’s efforts to improve scientific computing practices worldwide. NIH staff and the general public are welcome to attend. Please feel free to share this announcement. DATE: Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00 pm SPEAKER: Greg Wilson, Ph.D. , Executive Director of the Software Carpentry Foundation TITLE: How to Help Ten Thousand Scientists LOCATION: NIH Campus, Building 40, Room 1201/1203 ABSTRACT: Reproducible research, open science, peta-this and next-generation that... It would be easy to believe that the revolution is over, and a new kind of science had already won, but the fact is, the majority of researchers don't use computers any more skillfully or productively than they did twenty years ago. Most are still largely self-taught, and as a result, it takes them far longer to do simple tasks than it should, and at the end, they have no idea how reliable their results actually are. Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are trying to change this. In the past five years, they have delivered two-day computing skills workshops to over 10,000 scientists in more than 25 countries, and taught more than 300 of them how to teach these skills to their colleagues. This talk will describe what we teach, why and how we teach it, the impact it's having, the mistakes we've made along the way, and what we're planning to do next. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: - Greg Wilson et al: "Best Practices for Scientific Computing". PLOS Biology, 2014. - Greg Wilson: "Software Carpentry: Lessons Learned". F1000 Research, 2014. - Amy Brown and Greg Wilson (eds.): The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Elegance, Evolution, and a Few Fearless Hacks (two volumes), Lulu.com, 2011 and 2012. This lecture is jointly sponsored by the NIH/OD Office of Data Science and the National Institute of Mental Health. It is the first lecture in the Data Science Collaborative Lecture Series. To register for the workshop, go to: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2577837263322698754 Space is limited. ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the NIH-DATASCIENCE-TRAINERS-L list, click the following link: http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=NIH-DATASCIENCE-TRAINERS-L&A=1
