Yes, You Can Use Open Source – (And There's Help!) – Matt Davis



Yes, You Can Use Open Source – (And There's Help!) – Matt Davis

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Yes, You Can Use Open Source

(And There's Help!)

Matt Davis

CC-BY-SA

http://penandpants.com

@jiffyclub

jiffyclub@gmail.com

Slides: http://j.mp/1yBlzW8

Urban Visualization and Analysis

Open Source Scientific Tools

Awesome

Not So Awesome

Master Builders

Lab skills for scientific computing

We save researchers a day a week

for the rest of their careers.

Unix shell

Git / GitHub

Python (or R)

SQL (sometimes)

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task automation

tracking and sharing

modularization

structured data

Since January 2012

220 two-day workshops

234 instructors

6800 learners

...and many more

http://software-carpentry.org

info@software-carpentry.org

@swcarpentry

jiffyclub@gmail.com

@jiffyclub

Slides: http://j.mp/1yBlzW8