[data-carpentry-discuss] Organizing Data Carpentry workshop - advice

[Ethan White]

Hi Leah,

Typically we wouldn't teach both R and Python in a single workshop, because
it's the same material, just in two different languages. The one exception
is cases where there are enough participants (and available instructors) to
run two separate rooms, in which case one room does R and the other does
Python (i.e., it's basically two separate workshops). Typically in a case
like yours you'd probably just pick one of the two languages.

Data Carpentry is not teaching Git at this point. The idea being that our
audience is typically novices, looking to learn more about working with
data, and version control is not priority 1 for these folks. So, the
standard workshop at this point is some work on better use of spreadsheets,
then SQL, a little bit of shell, and a lot of R/Python.

Best,
Ethan
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