TRAINING THROUGH CARPENTRIES WORKSHOPS
NITheCS hosts Carpentries workshops to empower researchers through training to be more efficient and effective in their work.
The Carpentries is a non-profit organisation that teaches basic coding and data science skills to researchers. The focus is on reproducibility and collaboration.
Training workshops cover topics like software development, version control and data management using open-source tools. These include Git, Jupyter, Python and R.
WORKSHOPS HELD IN 2022
In 2022, NITheCS hosted X Carpentries workshops, including a workshop to train Trainers. Several early career researchers and postgraduate students were trained.
External bodies
- 2 Simple
- African School of Physics
- AIFMRM (Risk Management and Quantitative Finance)
- APS American Physical Society
- ARM Machine Learning Solutions
- Astrophysics Research Centre UKZN
- Careers toolbox
- Computer Science courses with video lectures
- Cortex Hub
- Data Science | SU LaunchLab
- Department of Science and Innovation (DSI)
- EDTP Seta
- Eskom Expo for Young Scientists
- Forum on International Physics
- GitHub
- IBM SkillsBuild
- IEEE Reach
- Institute of Mine Seismology
- IOP Institute of Physics
- Kavli
- KITP
- Machine Learning and Data Science Africa Network
- Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP)
- Mathematics: Dr Cerene Rathilal’s (UJ) YouTube channel
- NASSP National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme
- National Graduate Academy for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- National Research Foundation (NRF)
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Quantum@SUN
- Research Software & Systems Engineers of Africa (rsse.africa)
- Software Sustainability Institute
- South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)
- South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF)
- StoryEngine
- Study in Holland
- SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking
- Talarify
- The Carpentries
- The Open Source Data Science Masters
- Udacity
- UKZN Centre for Quantum Technology
- Wisaarkhu
- Yin-Zhe Ma’s web pages:
- XPrize
- ZA Bursaries
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- How to select research topic
- How to cite and download articles from Google Scholar
- Differences between Google and Google Scholar
- Literature databases
- Basics of MS Excel
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