General Information

This is a hybrid workshop drawn from Jornada Environmental Data Science (JEDS) and The Carpentries curricula. JEDS is a collection of collaborative instructional materials produced by the Jornada Basin LTER and USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range programs. There are also some contributions from the LTER Network office. The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.

Both JEDS and Data Carpentry develop and teach workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. The target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

For more information on what The Carpentries teaches and why, please see their paper "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".

Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Where: Wooton Hall, New Mexico State University campus, 2995 Knox St.Las Cruces, NM. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. What3Words location: ///surroundings.whilst.resting.

When: August 7th, 2025; 9:00 am to 5:00pm MDT Add to your Google Calendar.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).

Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:

• The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
• Accessible restrooms are available.

We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. We do not require participants to provide documentation of disabilities or disclose any unnecessary personal information. However, we do want to help create an inclusive, accessible experience for all participants. We encourage you to share any information that would be helpful to make your Carpentries experience accessible. To request an accommodation for this workshop, please fill out the accommodation request form. If you have questions or need assistance with the accommodation form please email us.

Glosario is a multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms. The glossary helps learners attend workshops and use our lessons to make sense of computational and programming jargon written in English by offering it in their native language. Translating data science terms also provides a teaching tool for Carpentries Instructors to reduce barriers for their learners.

Workshop Recordings: Carpentries workshops are designed to be interactive rather than lecture-based, with lessons that build upon one another. To foster a positive online learning environment, we strongly recommend that participants join in real time. As a result, workshop recordings are not recommended and may not be available to learners.

Contact: Please email gmaurer@nmsu.edu for more information.

Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.

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Code of Conduct

Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.

Report a Code of Conduct Incident

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Collaborative Notes

We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.

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Schedule

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Setup

To participate in a JEDS & Data Carpentry workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.

The Carpentries maintains a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.

The setup instructions for the Git and GitHub portion of the workshop can be found at a Carpentries workshop website. Follow the Installing Git and the Creating a GitHub Account instructions for your platform.

The setup instructions for the Data Visualization with R portion of the workshop can be found at the workshop overview site. In addition, please install the patchwork R package.

We'll hold a setup help session immediately before the workshop on Thursday.