Hi All,

There's a Software Carpentry (SC) workshop set up for the 2 days just before BIS TDWG 2016. It's an opportunity to see what SC is all about and for anyone attending to stretch or enhance their data skills a bit. You can read about the course content on the course wiki:

http://idigbio.github.io/2016-12-03-tdwg-costa-rica/

Core topics include:

automating tasks using the Unix shell

structured programming in Python, R, or MATLAB, and

version control using Git or Mercurial

We plan to offer an additional half-day of training focused on using the big data available from the iDigBio project. This may include programming with web APIs, distributed computation with Apache Spark, or similar topics.

There are still some slots left. So if you, or perhaps a student you know who is going to attend BIS TDWG 2016, please pass along news about this opportunity.

Best,
Deb, Matt, Dimitrios, Nicky, et al

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