https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/the-carpentries/ Recent content in The Carpentries on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/11/27/pivot/ Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/11/27/pivot/ Via Frinkiac tl;dr Teaching materials from The Carpentries depend on the community to amend and update them. This post is about my first proper contribution by helping to update the Software Carpentry lesson that teaches the R package {tidyr}. Some helpful materials for learning about {tidyr}’s new pivot_*() functions: the {tidyr} vignette about pivoting Hiroaki Yutani’s slides — ‘A graphical introduction to tide’s pivot_*()’ Bruno Rodrigues’s blogpost — ‘Pivoting data frames just got easier thanks to pivot_wide() and pivot_long()’ Sharon Machlis’s video — ‘How to reshape data with tidyr’s new pivot functions’ Gavin Simpson’s blog — ‘Pivoting tidily’ (a real-world problem) I wrote a {tidyr} lesson for Tidyswirl, a Swirl course for learning the tidyverse from within R itself (read the blog post) Contribute! https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/09/12/live-code/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/09/12/live-code/ An example of hardware carpentry, lol (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) Carving new coders The Carpentries is a global non-profit initiative to help build foundational skills in coding and data science. For example, Software Carpentry contains lessons about the shell, git, R and Python, while Data Carpentry and Library Carpentry teach more domain-specific knowledge. I took part in a two-day remote workshop to learn how to become a badged Carpentries instructor.