I became an instructor trainer in the Carpentries in Spring of 2017 and since then I’ve co-taught 5 train-the-trainer events. These trainings teach both the research-based teaching practices the Carpentries use and also how the Carpentries operate. Once learners finish this class and a few check-out steps (discuss & contribute to a lesson, teach a demo) they become a certified (badged) instructor in the carpentries. I finished teaching a workshop with Jeff Oliver, University of Arizona, thi...| Tim Dennis
The Library Carpentry sprint is part of the Library and Information Association of South Africa 2017 Conference, which will take place on 2 October, 2017 in Johannesburg. For those new to the field, a sprint is like a hackathon - it is a way to get people working together to create, update or extend open projects like Library Carpentry. We’ll use this etherpad to organize the sprint.| Tim Dennis
I’m taking off for South Africa later this eve and will be teaching and participating in several events while there. I’m super excited about joining my hosts, @anelda and @zjsteyn, for 2 weeks in Joburg.| Tim Dennis
Why It’s Scary| Tim Dennis
Huston, Therese. (2009) Teaching what you don’t know /Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press.| Tim Dennis
On July 28, 2016, I presented to a UCSD epidemiology group at the Medical Teaching Facility on using estout to autogenerate regression tables for publication. estout is a Stata package that makes it easy to produce publication quality regression tables in Stata. It also has provides various output formats including CSV, RTF, HTML or LaTeX.| Tim Dennis
After attending a bash class I taught for Software Carpentry, a student contacted me having troubles working with a large data file in R. She wanted to filter out rows based on some condition in two columns. An easy task in R, but because of the size of the file and R objects being memory bound, reading the whole file in was too much for my student’s computer to handle. She sent me the below sample file and how she wanted to filter it. I chose AWK because it is designed for this type of ta...| Tim Dennis
UCSF Sofware Carpentry 8/4-8/5 2016| Tim Dennis
Contributing to carpentry lessons with GitHub| jt14den.github.io
Keeping Track of Instructor Training| jt14den.github.io
UC Carpentries 2024| jt14den.github.io