Training

Free online data cleaning courses

The Bayes Centre (University of Edinburgh), with support from the Scottish Funding Council, is offering a programme of free online courses that aim to give the workforce the tools to upskill and reskill in the field of digital data.

The Carpentries announces new Executive Director

The Carpentries has appointed Kari L. Jordan as its new Executive Director.

CarpentryCon 2020 cancelled

CarpentryCon 2020, due to be held at the end of June at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, has been cancelled. Registration fees will be refunded. 

Free places available on online data skills workshops

Data Carpentry is running a series of two-day online courses on data skills for beginners, for learners in Scotland or working for Scottish employers (see full criteria below).

Reflections on our first online programming workshop

By Software Sustainability Institute Fellow Matt Williams, University of Bristol. Last Friday we ran the first online-version of our successful software engineering, data analysis and machine learning workshops. Previously, our workshops were three-hour in-person events. Attendees would work at their own speed through self-guided web-based material.

HPC training workshop for underrepresented groups

By Software Sustainability Institute Fellow Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA), Anna (Ania) Brown (University of Oxford, University of Southampton), Fouzhan Hosseini (NAG), Weronika Fillinger (EPCC) and Neelofer Banglawala (EPCC)

Teaching a new Geospatial Python lesson

Ryan Avery and Kunal Marwaha taught a new Carpentries Incubator lesson at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and wrote about their experience and feedback from the workshop.

Microsoft is Gold sponsor of Collaborations Workshop 2020

The Software Sustainability Institute is thrilled to announce that Microsoft will be a Gold sponsor of the Collaborations Workshop 2020 (CW20). The workshop will take place from Tuesday, 31 March to Thursday, 2 April 2020 in the Peter Froggatt Centre at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. You can see the full CW20 programme in the agenda. 

Incentives and benefits of getting involved in teaching researchers

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By Aleksandra Nenadic, Training Lead, Software Sustainability Institute

N8 CIR 2020 ReproHack Northern Tour

Image by N8 CIR

The N8 CIR, in collaboration with Anna Krystalli, a Research Software Engineer at the University of Sheffield and 2019 Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, is organising a series of ReproHacks,  one-day repr

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