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The University Library, in collaboration with COMBINE, is pleased to host the first Data Carpentry workshop to be held in Western Australia!

Data Carpentry is a non-profit organization that develops and provides data skills training to researchers, and this workshop has been brought to Western Australia with the support of the Australasian Genomic Technologies Association (AGTA) and the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI).

This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data.
We will cover data organization in spreadsheets and OpenRefine, data analysis and visualization in Python, and SQL for data management.

Instructors: Alistair Walsh (University of Melbourne) and Philipp Bayer (University of Western Australia)

Who: The course is aimed at UWA graduate students and researchers: maximum 30 places

When: Tuesday 25th October – Wednesday 26th October (9:00am - 4:30pm)

Where: Learning Suite, Ground Floor, Reid Library, University of Western Australia

Cost: $22.00 (incl. GST)

More information and registration: https://philippbayer.github.io/2016-10-25-uwa/