Empowering African Researchers: Building Data and Coding Skills with The Carpentries

Join us on October 10, 2024 at 11am WAT (UTC+1) // 12pm CAT // 1pm EAT for our webinar session featuring Angelique Trusler from The Carpentries.

Angelique will be speaking on the topic: Empowering African Researchers: Building Data and Coding Skills with The Carpentries.

She will share insights on how you can start your data and coding skills journey.

You will learn:

• Fundamental coding techniques to streamline your research workflow
• Effective data management strategies to organize and analyze your data and 
• Practical tips on using open-source tools to enhance your research capabilities

This session will help anyone looking to learn foundational coding and data science skills.

This webinar series is co-organised by: UbuntuNet Alliance: https://ubuntunet.net/ and Access 2 Perspectives: https://access2perspectives.org/  as part of the ORCID Global Participation Program: https://info.orcid.org/global-participation-program/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Watch the recording

The recording of the session will be made available here:

The slides will also be made available here: https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/20

Speaker’s profile

Dr. Angelique Trusler, with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, is the Community Manager at The Carpentries in Africa and a Researcher at North-West University in South Africa. She leads efforts to enhance researchers’ data science skills across Africa, organizing workshops and training programs. Under her leadership, The Carpentries in Africa has grown significantly, hosting over 200 workshops and certifying more than 160 instructors.

Dr. Trusler also spearheaded translating a computing glossary into seven African languages, including Afrikaans, Setswana, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Amharic, Kiswahili, and Southern Sotho, and hosted a major virtual event, CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021, with participants from 28 countries. Passionate about open science, she collaborates with researchers to improve data science education and research, aiming for universal access to these crucial skills.

Questions to discuss during the session 

1. How do The Carpentries’ training programs support researchers in building essential coding and data skills?

2. What are some of the most common challenges researchers face when learning coding and data science, and how does The Carpentries address these challenges?

3. Can you provide examples of how The Carpentries’ workshops have positively impacted research practices in Africa?

4. How does The Carpentries incorporate open-source tools into its training, and why are these tools important for researchers?

5. What strategies does The Carpentries use to ensure its training programs are accessible and effective for diverse research communities, including those in Africa?