I've seen many people confused about what the differences between SWC and DC are, specifically, people doing any kind of data analysis thinking that they should go into DC, even folks who were already very skilled and needed instead a SWC python-advanced class (if we had it). I've seen people who *really* didn't care about spreadsheets and SQL (but cared about data analysis) going into DC and get frustrated. I've seen people who went to SWC (python-beginner) but really needed a pyton-intermediate.
I'm not sure how carefully they read the descriptions, if they were native speakers or not, and what the source of the confusion was. It might simply be that they did not read anything and they assumed "software" carpentry = something for "software engineers", while "data carpentry" = something for "scientists who deal with data". I could be the one to blame, since I was the organizer, however I tried to be very un-specific and use the official material, see the last instances that I ran: https://sea.ucar.edu/event/software-carpentry-2 https://sea.ucar.edu/event/data-carpentry or https://sea.ucar.edu/event/software-carpentry-1 for a less recent one. Feel free to ask more specific questions (maybe offlist) and hope this helps improving :-) On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Maneesha Sane < manee...@software-carpentry.org> wrote: > I'm usually the first point of contact for general public inquiries about > SWC & DC and don't think I've seen anything like this. If this is just one > person I don't want to put too much effort into fixing things - we will > always have a random person here or there that is confused. I think we're > pretty clear that our lessons include R, Python, Shell, Git, etc. If anyone > else has seen a pattern of misconceptions about what SWC or DC is please > let us know so we can think about how we may need to adjust our message. > > > > Maneesha Sane > Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry > Program Coordinator > https://software-carpentry.org/ > http://www.datacarpentry.org/ > > > On 04/12/2016 08:54 AM, Raniere Silva wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> this week I was negotianting a workshop and the person that I was >> talking to really believe that Data and Software Carpentry are two >> softwares and the workshops are about the softwares itself. >> That person probably spent a lot of time looking at Data and Software >> Carpentry website (based the email that I received) so I want to know >> if you already experience an similar situation because if this is a >> common misconception we need to improve our website. >> >> Cheers, >> Raniere >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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