Software Carpentry-Python Workshop 11/11-12/2019 Medical Campus

Register Now | Syllabus forthcoming

This Bash, Python, and git workshop is capped at 35 participants, and is on a first-come/first-served basis.

• Make yourself competitive in the job market
• Take a personal project to the next level
• Learn programming for data analysis

Trained instructors lead a comprehensive, hands-on overview of an introductory data analysis using Python, covering topics like data types, functions, conditional statements, loops, errors and exceptions, debugging, and some key Python libraries and writing Python programs that will work like Linux command-line tools. This workshop is designed to provide a foundation of basic concepts that all programming depends on, using Python as an example.

WHEN

Monday and Tuesday, November 11 and 12, 2019
8:00 AM Registration  | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Course Hours, Both Days

LOCATION + PARKING

The Collaboratory is on the first floor of the Louis Calder Memorial Library (1601 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136). The closest and easiest paid parking is available in the Jackson Hospital parking garages nearby. There are 2: one just to the north, next to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the other is west, next to the Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building (RMSB).

Medical Campus map | Directions

The parking garages are buildings 49 (P 10 – Red Garage) and 50 (P 11- Green Garage) on the map. Calder Library is building 15 on the map. The Red Garage is closest.

Daily Self-Parking Rates at Jackson Hospital Garages (from their website):

Up to 2 Hours: FREE
2 to 2 ½ Hours: $5
2 ½ to 3 Hours: $7
3 to 3 ½ Hours: $9
3 ½ to 24 Hours: $11
Lost Chip Coin: $16

GREEN GARAGE
Park Plaza West
Street Address: 1140 N.W. 16 St.
Spaces: 1897
Hours: 24/7

RED GARAGE
Park Plaza East
Street Address: 901 N.W. 17 St.
Spaces: 1694
Hours: 24/7

INSTRUCTORS

Tim Norris, PhD, Research Data Scientist    |   Cameron Riopelle, PhD, Data Services Librarian

NOTE: Please bring your own laptop (any OS).

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Brought to you by the Graduate School, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging, UM Libraries, and CCS.

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Brought to you by the Graduate School, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging, UM Libraries, and CCS, this 2-day workshop will provide you with the basic computing skills and best practices needed to be productive in a small research team. The format is a mixture of short seminars and hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions.