Weekly Update: Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2015
This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.
| Conversations: | How do you fund your SWC workshops? Please join the conversation. |
| Should we remove old material when adding new in order to keep the lessons manageable? Should people have to teach the standard material a couple of times before introducing their own? Please contribute your ideas. | |
| Resources: | Remember to sign up for Software Carpentry's mailing lists. They are rich resources for scientific computing. |
| Great R cheat sheets available at RStudio include sheets for dplyr, tidyr, Shiny, and R Markdown. | |
| A preview release of RStudio v0.99.315 is now available for testing and feedback. New features include for example the removal of the 1K row limit in Data Viewer. | |
| IPython 3.0 has been released - congratulations to the whole team. | |
| So you think you can data? The rOpenSci Hackathon is going to host a friendly data challenge between Hadley Wickham and Wes McKinney - please follow this GitHub issue for news. | |
| Quotable: | "This is @swcarpentry: try to teach enough in two days that things people find on the internet make a little more sense." @jiffyclub |
Details
- Do you have ideas about using package management for lessons (or ultimately papers)? Please see Greg's Installable Lesson Demo and share your insights.
- The fourth post-workshop instructor debriefing is now available. Workshops held at Jagiellonian University, Beacon Center at Michigan State University, and University of California at Irvine were discussed.
- Eleven new instructors joined us this week.
Repository Activity
| Project | Issues | Pull Requests | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opened | Closed | Comments | Opened | Closed | Comments | |
| shell-novice | 3 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| git-novice | 1 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 11 | |
| hg-novice | 2 | |||||
| sql-novice-survey | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| python-novice-inflammation | 1 | 41 | 2 | 13 | 11 | |
| r-novice-inflammation | 18 | 2 | 5 | |||
| matlab-novice-inflammation | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||
| slideshows | ||||||
| instructor-training | ||||||
| amy | 1 | 1 | 48 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| site | 4 | 5 | 45 | 6 | 7 | |
| Total | 8 | 11 | 208 | 20 | 40 | 29 |