Re: [discuss] Teaching intro to data science at high school level

Hi Dav, Sarah! Thanks so much for these incredibly interesting resources. This made me realise again how important it is to take context into consideration when developing courses. I think there's a lot here that may be useful, but I also realise that a very small percentage of South African learn

[discuss] CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019 call for proposals closes on 8 March 2019

* Just a quick reminder that the call for topic suggestions and proposals for CarpentryConnect Manchester will close on 8 March 2019. The conference will take pl

[discuss] Biostatistics training material

Good day everyone, Some of my colleagues are planning to develop a Biostatistics course to bridge the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate students. They are planning to develop their material on using SPSS, and I am trying to convince them to rather use R/RStudio. They are reluctant to swit

Re: [discuss] Biostatistics training material

Dear Bianca, I'm also in the process of trying to convince a small team (in an industry R&D context) to switch from SPSS to R/RStudio. I guess we already know the arguments (R is more flexible and more sustainable; some quick searching on the web led me to: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which

Re: [discuss] Biostatistics training material

Hi Bianca, could be an idea to have them to develop the course in SPSS and someone else "translates" it to R? Or it will be just a repetition of the same thing? Cheers, M Il giorno gio 7 mar 2019 alle ore 14:04 Bianca Peterson < bianca.peterson...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Good day everyone, > >

Re: [discuss] Biostatistics training material

Hi Bianca, The two recent and very good sources you could consider to use in teaching (bio)statistics are: https://moderndive.com by Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/index.html Modern Statistics for Modern Biology by Susan Holmes and Wolfg

Re: [discuss] Biostatistics training material

You’re happy to pilfer/take a gander at these two courses if they are at all useful. A hair different than the course linked below: https://biol607.github.io/ https://biol355.github.io/index.html I’m happy to talk offline about this as well - it’s a topic that is definitely in the air! I’d al

Re: [discuss] Biostatistics training material

Hi Bianca This is a more general discussion of changing a lab's programming language, but some of the ideas might translate. It's about a shift from matlab to python, but it's a similar shift. https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(19)30021-X *Sarah M Brown, PhD* sa

[discuss] Feedback on our communications

A little over two years ago, The Carpentries team reached out to the community asking for feedback on our communications. Several changes have happened since then, key among them being that Library Carpentry became an official Lesson Program of The Carpentries in November 2018

[discuss] Concurrent, multi-site delivery of workshops using Zoom

Hi everyone, long time reader, first time poster. [noob question] I was wondering if carpentry workshops have ever been delivered concurrently at different sites using something like zoom? The idea being one instructor at each site delivering an episode live at that site, with the remote liste

Re: [discuss] Concurrent, multi-site delivery of workshops using Zoom

Hi Nick, We did this in 2014 (or 2015), using adobe connect. Our locations were UF (Gainesville, FL and AMNH in NYC). Deb Sent from Shoe (my iPhone) On Mar 7, 2019, at 6:01 PM, nick.wong via discuss mailto:discuss@lists.carpentries.org>> wrote: Hi everyone, long time reader, first time poster

Re: [discuss] Concurrent, multi-site delivery of workshops using Zoom

Nick, We did this when I was at The University of Oklahoma with Greg Wilson coming in remotely to teach SQL. Greg cast his screen to the local displays and his audio boomed from the speakers in the room. He did not stream video for most of the teaching time. Worked well. Like you suggest, we had

Re: [discuss] Concurrent, multi-site delivery of workshops using Zoom

Thanks Deb, I suspect you didn't do that again, given it was a while ago? ___ *Nick Wong * Monash Bioinformatics Platform Central Clinical School, The Alfred *E: *nick.w...@monash.edu *T: *+61 3 9903 0042 *M: *+61 423 072 806 Click here for more information on Monash

Re: [discuss] Concurrent, multi-site delivery of workshops using Zoom

That is great, thanks Jonah for that and the link. nick. ___ *Nick Wong * Monash Bioinformatics Platform Central Clinical School, The Alfred *E: *nick.w...@monash.edu *T: *+61 3 9903 0042 *M: *+61 423 072 806 Click here for more information on Monash Bioinformatics Pla

Re: [discuss] Concurrent, multi-site delivery of workshops using Zoom

Hi Nick, As Jonah laid out - it can work - but it takes some strategy and both human and cyber infrastructure (including bandwidth) to pull it off. We have not done it again - but we’re not against the notion. Ours was successful (as measured in our assessment follow up), but did require a lot

Re: [discuss] Concurrent, multi-site delivery of workshops using Zoom

Thanks Deb, this is very handy and insightful. Cheers Nick ___ *Nick Wong * Monash Bioinformatics Platform Central Clinical School, The Alfred *E: *nick.w...@monash.edu *T: *+61 3 9903 0042 *M: *+61 423 072 806 Click here for more information on Monash Bioinformatics