Have you booked your place yet? 

SSA's online workshop

Version control using Git and RStudio

presented by the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC) 

will be held over two sessions of 90 minutes each on 

·         10 September 2020 (11:00 AM-12:30PM AEST) and

·         11 September 2020 (11:00 AM-12:30PM AEST)

for those who want to learn more about version control and reproducibility of their research.

About the workshop

This course will be adapted from the Software Carpentry Lesson “Version Control with Git.  Version control is an efficient method of keeping a record of changes made to your work over time. Each set of changes creates a new commit of the files and the version control system allows users to recover old commits reliably and helps manage conflicting changes made by different users.  It is extremely useful for collaborating with others and for managing individual projects, and a crucial component of reproducible research.

This workshop will teach version control using Git, a free and open source distributed version control system. The workshop will be interactive. Participants will learn from a combination of presentation slides, live coding and group learning though break out sessions with fellow participants. 

The workshop will be presented by the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC).   The CIC is a multidisciplinary Institute based at Curtin University in Bentley, Western Australia. The CIC employs a team of Data Scientists who assist both Curtin University researchers and external collaborators in applying computational methods across the sciences, engineering, social sciences, health science, business, and the humanities to provide innovative solutions to complex problems. The CIC Data Scientists also run a variety of computational training workshops to upskill participants in domain-specific training covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research.

In particular, the CIC collaborates with The Carpentries to teach foundational coding and data science skills, running workshops such as version control and introduction to data analysis in R and python. The CIC Data Scientists facilitating this proposed workshop are certified Carpentries Instructors with significant training experience. 

Please click here to find out more and to register. Assistance sessions will be run from Monday, 7 September, so it is recommended that you sign up early.

If you have questions please contact the SSA Executive Officer, Marie-Louise Rankin.