Africa

#Carpentries25 Testimonial Series: Jean Baptiste Fankam Fankam

Recently badged Carpentries Instructor and Maintainer, Jean Baptiste Fankam Fankam, shares his journey at The Carpentries on our 25th Anniversary

Celebrating 25 Years of The Carpentries

Join us in sharing the contributions and impact the community has made over the years.

CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021 - A global event

An estimated 300GB of mobile data was provided to 71 attendees.

Glosario: African contributions

As part of the checkout process, community members translated more than 300 data science terms into Amharic.

CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021 - A global event

An estimated 300GB of mobile data was provided to 71 attendees.

Registration for CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021 now open!

The main goal of CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021 is to build capacity for workshops through instructor training, and establish a network for the regional Carpentries community.

University of the Western Cape’s first Data Carpentry Workshop of 2021

Lessons included data organising and cleaning in spreadsheets and with OpenRefine, and data analysis and visualisation with R and RStudio

Our First Workshop - Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya

Originally posted on the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya website, this blog post highlights learnings from the BHKi's first R workshop on 24 and 25 March 2021

Reflections on my First Data Carpentry Workshop

Lessons learned during the author's first attendance at a Data Carpentry workshop

Lessons Learned - Data Carpentries Workshop for SADiLaR (August 31, 2020)

This post covers instructors' experiences teaching a Data Carpentries workshop for the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources in August 2020

Learners' Experiences from South Africa's Online Workshop

This post covers learners' experiences and feedback from SADiLaR's first three-day online Data Carpentry workshop in early May

Introducing our new Regional Consultant for Southern Africa.

Dr. Angelique Trusler joins The Carpentries as Regional Consultant for Southern Africa.

Teaching Software Carpentry at the University of Botswana

In this post, Raniere Silva shares reflections from teaching a software carpentry workshop in Botswana

A Wrap-up from the African Task Force

What did the African Task Force Do in 2018 and what did we learn...

Software and Data Carpentry Instructor Training Comes to Africa

Instructor training event will take place in Potchefstroom, North-West Province, South Africa from 17 - 20 April 2016

Data Carpentry in Africa

First Data Carpentry workshop in Africa at the TDWG conference

IoT for Novices in South Africa

The Intro to IoT lesson is available in the Carpentries Incubator and uses the new Carpentries Workbench.