University of Kansas Carpentries Instructors

May 3, 2021 Meeting Notes

Carpentries Instructors’ meeting

Present:

Albin, Brooks-Kieffer, de Mello, Dwyer, Kindred (guest), Koseva, Russell, Thomas

Agenda

Discussions

Potential Upcoming Workshops, mostly Data Carpentry Geospatial

A lot of this discussion centered on making sure that learners who register for this workshop have enough R skills to succeed in the workshop. Ideas for addressing this problem included:

There was consensus that the group needed to pick a direction and move forward. All the approaches are valid and there’s not a wrong way to do it.

The audience of DC-Geospatial will determine what is taught. Some learners will need the Geospatial Concepts material; for others, the big payoff will be the raster time series material.

A list of minimum core competencies for participating in DC-Geospatial was created during the meeting:

  1. Reading csvs and other files into R as objects
  2. Navigating the environment, installing packages and libraries
  3. Tidyverse; gathering, sub-setting, editing and otherwise manipulating data frames
  4. General troubleshooting
  5. Piping
  6. Familiarity with printing data/summarizing data (head, str, tail etc) would be nice
  7. Some familiarity with plotting using ggplot

Instructor Training Check-in and Debrief

Folks who have recently completed instructor training discussed their experiences and what to expect. It’s important to be able to use the concepts learned during instructor training in an instructor group and by putting on workshops.

Share a helpful tip

In lieu of a specific professional development topic, attendees shared a tip that has been helpful for them in the past:

Notes by JBK