Kunal Marwaha on The Carpentries

Unique multi-site teaching experience via virtual shared conference

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Location

The Virgin Islands are located about three hours south of Florida, against the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The University (UVI) has a campus on each of the two most populous islands, St. Croix and St. Thomas. These islands were colonised by Europeans for two hundred years and are still territories of the United States. Most residents today are Afro-Caribbean.

South Big Data Hub (SBDH) is a new data science initiative, run by Georgia Tech. They have a contract with The Carpentries to run workshops at many universities in the Southeastern United States. They also planned a Train the Trainers session this year to enable the same universities to teach their own workshops.

More than Workshops

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

There are a variety of ways people find The Carpentries. Belinda Weaver, of Griffith University and until recently, The Carpentries, blogged about her path. At CarpentryConnect Davis 2018, some of us discussed the different paths we had when joining this community. As you may see from the image below - no two people find their way into or around The Carpentries following the same path (zoom in to see details)…

Two Workshops at NASA DEVELOP (or, Python De-Fanged)

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

On 8-9 June, 2017, Katie Moore, Deputy Data Management Team Lead for the NASA CERES Science Team, and Ryan Avery, Geoinformatics Fellow with the NASA DEVELOP National Program, ran a Self-Organised workshop in Hampton, VA.

On 12-13 June, 2017, Kunal Marwaha, a software engineer with Palantir, Kelly Meehan, Geoinformatics Fellow with NASA DEVELOP, and Ryan ran another Self-Organised workshop in Norton, VA.

Both workshops focused on building skills in NASA DEVELOP participants, who work on 10-week feasibility projects that demonstrate how to apply NASA Earth observations to environmental concerns to enhance project partner decision-making. In the process, both partners and participants gain a better understanding of NASA’s Earth-observing (EO) capabilities and improve their professional and technical capacity to use EO data. For Katie, Kelly, and I, these were the first workshops in which we taught entire lessons and we found it to be an extremely rewarding experience.

A Workshop for Undergraduates at UC Berkeley

Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000