Registration is now open for Software Carpentry for Library Staff. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, programmatic data manipulation, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own data wrangling problems.

Topics include:

·         Automating tasks with the Unix shell

·         Building programs with Python

·         Managing data with SQL

·         Regular Expressions (regex) and Bringin' it all together


Date: July 9 & 10, 2015. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Place: West Vancouver Memorial Library
Cost: $175 members / $225 non-members

Register here: www.bcla.bc.ca/carpentry/<http://www.bcla.bc.ca/carpentry/>