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<span class="xxxelementtoproof1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">-----</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="xxxelementtoproof1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On September 12-15, the UA Libraries, UITS Research Technologies, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are hosting a Data Carpentry workshop for researchers
in the life sciences.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Carpentries workshops teach skills that are immediately useful for researchers, using lessons and datasets that allow researchers to quickly apply what they have learned to their own work. This workshop
will use an ecology dataset, but is not restricted to ecologists. The curriculum will include:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://datacarpentry.org/spreadsheet-ecology-lesson/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Tidy Data</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://datacarpentry.org/OpenRefine-ecology-lesson/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Easier Data Cleaning with OpenRefine</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.michaelc-m.com/Rewrite-R-ecology-lesson/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Data Analysis and Visualization with
R</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The target audience is learners who have little to no prior computational experience, and the instructors put a priority on creating a friendly environment to empower researchers and enable data-driven
discovery. Even those with some experience will benefit, as the goal is to teach not only how to do analyses, but how to manage the process to make it as automated and reproducible as possible. For instance, after attending this workshop you will be able to:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Avoid common data formatting mistakes<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Clean and format data effectively and efficiently<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Calculate summary statistics for a dataset<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Create publication-quality scatter plots and boxplots<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Space is limited and it will likely fill quickly. Registration is required and can be completed at
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://forms.gle/YwBQLH5VccL4mUgE8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://forms.gle/YwBQLH5VccL4mUgE8</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
Please see the workshop webpage </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://jcoliver.github.io/2022-09-12-AZ-DC-Ecology/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://jcoliver.github.io/2022-09-12-AZ-DC-Ecology/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> for
more information. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Questions? Please email Jeff Oliver at
<a href="mailto:jcoliver@arizona.edu">jcoliver@arizona.edu</a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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