UW–Madison Carpentries Community
Help teach data science workshops.
DSI and The Carpentries partner to offer data and software training for researchers. The local community of workshop instructors, helpers, and lesson developers includes research support staff from across campus, faculty members, and graduate students.
Want to Teach or Help? Join the Community!
Are you curious about teaching computational skills to researchers? Did you struggle to learn programming and data best practices and want to help others learn those skills? Join the Carpentries Instructional Community to advance your teaching and technical skills while helping others.
Join the UW Carpentries Google Group
To join the UW Carpentries Google Group and get involved in the community, click the link below. Please note that you need to be signed in to a Google account in order to see a “Join group” button after being redirected to the Google groups webpage.
Become a Certified Instructor
As a UW Carpentries community member, you can help with or teach workshops. We don’t require instructors be Carpentries-certified, just to have helped at a prior workshop. We offer training on a rolling basis for interested individuals to earn the certification, prioritizing those who have helped or taught at past workshops.
Diversifying and Expanding Curricula
UW–Madison contributes to new Carpentries lessons that appeal to researchers in a variety of disciplines, including those who work with health science data, geospatial data, and digital humanists. See the workshop webpage for information on existing and upcoming UW–Madison Carpentries workshops.
The Carpentries and UW–Madison
UW–Madison’s partnership with The Carpentries to offer data and software training for researchers began in April 2013 with workshops offered by the Advanced Computing Initiative. In January 2019, the DSI Data Science Facilitation Team (formerly the Data Science Hub) began hosting these workshops. The Center for High Throughput Computing has also been key in developing the Carpentries community at UW–Madison.
Have questions about how to get involved?
Our FAQ page has answers to frequently asked questions on how you can get involved with the Carpentries community and its volunteer-led workshops.
If you have any additional questions, please reach out to facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu.