We ran a ‘Code Cafe’ event for Coffee Revolution for Researchers who wanted to take their first steps with R. Details and class materials are at http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5981

Last week (11-15th January 2016) saw the first Open Astronomy workshop held at The University of Sheffield for the UK astronomy and solar physics communities. The first two days of the workshop consisted of the core syllabus of Software Carpentry, covering git, bash and an introduction to programming with Python. The last three days provided an introduction to carrying out research in astronomy using Python. The attendees were mostly PhD students in Astrophysics from the University of Sheffield, however there were also representation of other fields (mathematics, medicine, ecology), from other universities (St. Andrews, Reading) and at different stages in their careers (post-docs).

I’ll be starting my 5 year EPSRC Research Software Engineering fellowship in March 2016. For more details of the program of work, head over to my blog, http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5948