When
We are hosting a virtual workshop series during fall semester 2024 to help UA researchers improve their reproducibility and data science skills
Objectives
- Become comfortable with sharing and collaborating on research products on GitHub using git
- Learn approaches for how to better organize research projects and their corresponding code, including intermediate R skills
- Improve project documentation by adding REAMDEs and by using Quarto for literate programming
This workshop series will not cover statistical methods or modeling, mathematics, introductory R, or any other programming languages besides shell, git, and R. These topics can be taught separately by request.
Prerequisites
You should take this workshop if:
- You are a graduate student who has collected their data and is ready to analyze and document it, or a researcher or postdoc who is looking to further skills in the areas outlined above
- You are working on research projects that could benefit from improved collaboration, documentation, and organization
- You are comfortable with introductory R skills
- You do not have any prior experience with version control, or want a stronger foundation
Structure
The complete lesson materials will be taught over ten sessions (see topic and dates below) consisting of code-along learning, through which participants will iteratively build and practice their skills. Then, participants will apply their new skills to personal research projects. Participants will have the opportunity to present a lightning talk at a reproducibility colloquium to showcase their work.
This workshop series been previously offered at University of Arizona.
| Date & time | Topic |
|---|---|
| Tuesday September 3, 11am - 1pm | Project management and coding best practices |
| Thursday September 5, 11am - 1pm | Using shell commands |
| Tuesday September 10, 11am - 1pm | Version control with git |
| Thursday September 12, 11am - 1pm | Developing code on GitHub |
| Tuesday September 17, 11am - 1pm | Collaborating with GitHub |
| Thursday September 19, 11am - 1pm | Documentation and literate programming |
| Tuesday September 24, 11am - 1pm | Data wrangling |
| Thursday September 26, 11am - 1pm | Intermediate R programming I |
| Tuesday October 1, 11am - 1pm | Intermediate R programming II |
| Thursday October 3, 11am - 1pm | Getting credit for your hard work |
| Tuesday October 8, 11am - 1pm | TBD |
| Tuesday October 10, 11am - 1pm | Reproducibility Colloquium |
Apply
If you are interested, complete this application form! It should take no more than five minutes and requires no prior preparation. We will start notifying applicants on August 12, 2024, and then have rolling admissions until the application closes on August 26, 2023. The workshop will be limited to 20 total participants, with priority given to researchers in ALVSCE (including CALES departments, Cooperative Extension, and Experiment Stations) and those who can commit to at least 10 of the 12 sessions.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the instructors Eric Scott and Renata Diaz!