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venue: "Queen's University Belfast"        # brief name of host site without address (e.g., "Euphoric State University")
address: "Room MAP.01.004, Mathematics and Physics Teaching Centre, QUB"      # street address of workshop (e.g., "123 Forth Street, Blimingen, Euphoria")
country: "gb"      # country (lowercase two-letter ISO code such as "fr" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1)
language: "en"     # language (lowercase two-letter ISO code such as "fr" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1)
latlng: "54.584069, -5.934326"       # fractional latitude and longitude (e.g., "41.7901128,-87.6007318"; you can use http://www.latlong.net/)
humandate: "Jun 01-02, 2017"    # human-readable date (e.g., "Feb 17-18, 2020")
humantime: "09:30 am - 4:30 pm"    # human-readable time (e.g., "9:00 am - 4:30 pm")
startdate: 2017-06-01      # use YYYY-MM-DD format like 2015-01-01
enddate: 2017-06-02        # use YYYY-MM-DD format like 2015-01-02
instructor: ["Manos Farsarakis", "Juan Herrera"] # list of names like ["Kay McNulty", "Betty Jennings", "Betty Snyder"]
helper: ["Hannah Mitchell","Conor Donnelly","Jack Wragg","Carles Triguero", "Jamie Robinson"]     # list of names like ["Marlyn Wescoff", "Fran Bilas", "Ruth Lichterman"]
contact: "support@archer.ac.uk"      # contact email address for workshop organizer, such as "grace@hopper.org"
etherpad:         # optional (insert the URL for your Etherpad if you're using one)
eventbrite:       # optional (insert the alphanumeric key for Eventbrite registration, e.g., "1234567890AB")
day1_am: "Data organization in spreadsheets and OpenRefine"
day1_pm: "Introduction to R"
day2_am: "Data analysis and visualization in R"
day2_pm: "SQL for data management"
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<h2>General Information</h2>

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<p>
  <a href="http://www.archer.ac.uk">ARCHER</a>, the UK's national
  supercomputing service, offers training in software development and
  high-performance computing to scientists and researchers across the
  UK. As part of our training service we are running a two-day Data
  Carpentry workshop. 
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<p>
  The <a href="http://www.software.ac.uk">Software Sustanability Institute</a>'s mission 
  is to cultivate better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research 
  (<a href="http://softwaresaved.spreadshirt.co.uk/"><em>better software, better research</em></a>). 
  Software is fundamental to research: <a href="http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2014-12-04-its-impossible-conduct-research-without-software-say-7-out-10-uk-researchers">seven out of ten UK researchers report that their work would be impossible without it</a>.
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<p>
<a href=http://datacarpentry.org>Data Carpentry</a> workshops are for any researcher 
who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required. 
This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more 
effectively with data. 
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We will cover {{page.day1_am}}, {{page.day1_pm}}, {{page.day2_am}} and {{page.day2_pm}}.

Participants should bring their laptops and plan to participate actively. By the end of the workshop learners should be able to more effectively manage and analyze data and be able to apply the tools and approaches directly to their ongoing research.
</p>

<p>
  This workshop is being run by <a
  href="http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk">EPCC</a>, as part of ARCHER, and <a
  href="http://www.software.ac.uk">The Software Sustainability Institute</a> (SSI).
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  <strong>Requirements:</strong> Participants must bring a laptop with a 
  Mac, Linux, or Windows operating sytem (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges
  on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed
  <a href="#setup">below</a>). They are also required to abide by
  Data Carpentry's
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<h2>Registration</h2>
<p>
To register, or to get more information, please, visit the <a
href="http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/">ARCHER training page</a>.
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<h2>Preliminary Schedule</h2>


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<p><em>Surveys</em></p>
<p>Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.</p>
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<p><a href='{{ site.dc_post_survey }}'>Post-workshop Survey</a></p>



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<p><em>Break times</em></p>
<p>
  Start: 9:30<br>
  Morning break: 10:30 - 11:00<br>
  Lunch break: 12:00 - 13:00<br>
  Afternoon break: 14:30 - 15:00<br>
  Finish: 16:30<br>
</p>

<p>
  <strong>Hackpad:</strong> <a href="https://hackpad.com/2017-06-01-Belfast-Data-Carpentry-a5KZfHA7XXw">Follow this link.</a>.
  <br/>
  We will use this Hackpad for taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
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<h2 id="setup">Setup</h2>

<p>
To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need working copies of the 
described software. Please make sure to install everything (or at least to download 
the installers) before the start of your workshop. Participants should bring and use 
their own laptops to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow 
once you leave the workshop.
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Please follow these <a href=install.html>Setup Instructions</a>.

<p>
  We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors
  that may be useful on the
  <a href = "https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/wiki/Configuration-Problems-and-Solutions">Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page</a>.
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