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    Hello QSB,<br>
    <br>
    We will be holding a pilot workshop on Reproducible Research using
    the Jupyter notebook January 11-12. <br>
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        objective of this workshop is to learn about and work with the</span><a
        href="http://jupyter.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
        </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Jupyter
          notebook</span></a><span
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        as a tool promoting best practices for reproducible research.
        Jupyter notebooks are increasingly widely adopted, and have been
        the main method of displaying detailed results in a number of
        high-profile scientific papers. As a tool promoting reproducible
        practices, Jupyter notebooks allow users to interleave text,
        code, and output into a single, interactive document that
        includes features facilitating research exploration, interactive
        learning, and sharing over the internet. Their dynamic nature is
        ideally suited to sharing all steps of the research workflow in
        a reproducible manner. Although this workshop will use Python as
        the programming language, Jupyter notebooks can be used with
        over 40 common programing languages, and the notebook document
        format is programming language-agnostic.</span>
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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
          event is organized jointly by</span><a
          href="http://datacarpentry.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
          </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Data
            Carpentry</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
          and the</span><a href="http://jupyter.org/"
          style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
          </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Jupyter
            Notebook</span></a><span
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          project.</span></p>
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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
          workshop is aimed at graduate students, postdocs, and other
          researchers who perform computational analysis or work. The
          material uses basic Python for teaching and illustrating the
          key concepts. Advanced knowledge of Python is not needed, but
          some familiarity with Python will aid in absorbing the
          material.</span></p>
      <br>
      <p dir="ltr"
        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><a
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://reproducible-science-curriculum.github.io/rr-jupyter-workshop/">https://reproducible-science-curriculum.github.io/rr-jupyter-workshop/</a></span></p>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    If you are interested please sign up at:<br>
    <a href="http://www.datacarpentry.org/2018-01-11-ucmerced/">http://www.datacarpentry.org/2018-01-11-ucmerced/</a><br>
    <br>
    You will need to commit to attending both days of the workshop.<br>
    <br>
    Please contact me if you have questions,<br>
    Emily Jane<br>
    <br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Emily Jane McTavish
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Rd, Merced CA 95343
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ejmctavish@gmail.com">ejmctavish@gmail.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ejmctavish@ucmerced.edu">ejmctavish@ucmerced.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mctavishlab.github.io/">https://mctavishlab.github.io/</a></pre>
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