Since I attended the entire STAMPS course at MBL this year, which was an entirely computational course, I had the opportunity to proselytize computational reproducibility and good practice to a number of people.
Now, with students I'm usually fairly gentle about this kind of thing, and try to get my …
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We all know that biology (along with other sciences) is becoming ever more data intensive. Biologists (among other scientists) are not terribly well prepared for this, because of a lack of computational culture, lack of computational training, and a lack of tools. What do they need to know?
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Julia Gustavsen and I just finished teaching one room of a 3-room Software Carpentry boot camp at University of Washington, Seattle.
Students remained interested and vocal, even when looking exhausted.
Almost all came back the second day!
We got some good individual feedback that we'd taught useful things …
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