Greetings, Good Carpentry Folks a few words of intro about be at the bottom of this post wanted to quickly suggest that for all lessons, (software, data, libraries ) it could be beneficial to provide an overview of the datasets being imported. I have already attended a few carpentry courses - all so excellent in different ways - but the curricula jump straight into import dataset/start hacking dataset and learning commands/doing exerices/ This is good, but a bit mechanical. I suggest that when importing data sets for the lessons, instructors should provide an overview of what the data files are, what they contain, how are they structured. The lesson should end successfully imho when the learner can use the commands and functions to query and manipulate their own data sets. For this purpose, the lesson should also include how to prepare your data files for processing. with some examples, I have not yet seen this in the curruculum. Again, this is NOT A COMPLAINT! I am enjoying thoroughly the opportunity to get up to speed with all this wonderful stuff, Please consider this post as MY CONTRIBUTION as I have completed instructor training this year and I hope to checkout before the end of the year. Cheerios. PDM I joined recently and so glad I did . The Carpentries is excellent and doing my best to come to grips with the vast amount of resources. I am a systems engineer b, did and MSc in UK in 2001 (knowledge modelling) researched data structures in my work, taught various courses in IT at graduate level and completed a PhD in 2012 in Open data for systems engineering (tough one) I collected and analyzed data using google spreadsheets, approx 100 samples. and have experience handling data in the thousands units. The way the data is structured/accessed is very important (that s my background) and will impact the effort/cost /outcome of the data analysis. I look forward to continue to learn as much as I can!! ------------------------------------------ This list is for the purpose of general discussion about The Carpentries including community activities, upcoming events, and announcements. Some other lists you may also be interested in include discuss-hpc, discuss-r, and our local groups. Visit https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/ to learn more. All activity on this and other Carpentries spaces should abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct found here: https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html
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