Dear ORCD Community,
Helping the MIT research community serves as a mission element for ORCD and I’d like to direct your attention to useful and important IAP classes. To start, Chris and Lauren, along with Dr. Julie Mullen from Lincoln Lab will teach,
12.091/12.391 Practical High-Performance Computing: Scaling Beyond your Laptop, that makes use of shared ORCD computing resources.
MIT Libraries has a plethora of short courses (full calendar of Libraries IAP workshops here):
Workshops relevant to ORCD mission:
- NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans: What and How (January 10th, 1pm -2pm)
- Data Management: File Organization (January 30th, 1pm-3pm)
- Data Management for Postdocs and Research Scientists (January 31st, 3pm-4:30pm)
- Data Bites Series:
- Writing Better READMES (January 17th, 1pm-1:30pm)
- Writing Better Data Availability Statements (January 17th, 1:30pm-2pm)
- Backing Up Your Stuff (January 19th, 1pm-1:30pm)
- Finding a Data Repository (January 19th: 1:30pm-2pm)
- Carpentries@MIT: Intro to UnixShell/Python/Git (Three-day event beginning on January 25th)
Additional workshops related to data and open scholarship
- Equity & Open Scholarship: What does it mean to make scientific knowledge open to everyone? (January 31st, 1pm-2pm)
- Introduction to GIS and Mapping (January 10th, 1pm-3:30pm, and January 12th, 1pm-3:30pm)
- GIS Level 2: Introduction to Spatial Analysis (January 13th, 10am-12pm)
- Data and Environmental Justice: Exploring Environmental Advocacy with EJScreen (January 11th, 2pm-4pm)
- Open Access Publishing at MIT (January 12th, 11am-12pm)
- Introduction to LaTeX with Overleaf (January 18th, 3pm-5pm)
IAP serves as a good time to learn new things we don’t have time for during regular term, and all of these courses handle topics that will become increasingly important in coming years.
Peter