Buy This Book and Support Data Carpentry

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Thanks to the efforts of Len Epp at Leanpub and Tracy Teal at Data Carpentry, 50% of the royalties from the book *[How to Be a Modern Scientist](https://leanpub.com/modernscientist/)* will be donated to Data Carpentry. The book is pay what you want with a suggested price of $10. I am very excited to help support the efforts of Data Carpentry since I believe data science education is a fundamental need in the modern scientific era.

About the book: The face of academia is changing. It is no longer sufficient to just publish or perish; we are now in an era where Twitter, Github, Figshare, and Alt Metrics are regular parts of the scientific workflow. Here I give high level advice about which tools to use, how to use them, and what to look out for. This book is appropriate for scientists at all levels who want to stay on top of the current technological developments affecting modern scientific careers. The book is based in part on the author’s popular guides including guides for

Jeff Leek on The Carpentries

Buy This Book and Support Data Carpentry