Contributors: Kari L. Jordan, Naupaka Zimmerman, Marianne Corvellec, Elizabeth Wickes, Jonah Duckles
January 2018
Respondents Status
Field of work, research, or study.
Field | n | % |
---|---|---|
Life Sciences | 175 | 36.2 |
Biomedical/Health Sciences | 104 | 21.5 |
Agricultural or Environmental Sciences | 81 | 16.8 |
Physical Sciences | 57 | 11.8 |
Earth Sciences | 50 | 10.4 |
Mathematics or Statistics | 43 | 8.9 |
Engineering | 42 | 8.7 |
Computer Science | 38 | 7.9 |
Social Sciences | 25 | 5.2 |
Library Sciences | 21 | 4.3 |
Humanities | 14 | 2.9 |
Business | 6 | 1.2 |
Number of Carpentries workshops attended
Time since completing last Carpentries workshop
What content was covered at the last Carpentries workshop you completed? Select all that apply.
ContentCovered | n |
---|---|
Git | 378 |
Python | 301 |
Unix Shell | 291 |
R | 200 |
SQL | 139 |
I don’t remember. | 32 |
OpenRefine | 29 |
Spreadsheets | 21 |
Cloud Computing | 15 |
MATLAB | 5 |
Mercurial | 3 |
Combination of tools covered in respondents’ workshops.
Frequency of Tools Covered | n | % |
---|---|---|
Git Python Unix Shell | 96 | 19.0 |
Git Python | 41 | 8.1 |
Git Python SQL Unix Shell | 39 | 7.7 |
Git R Unix Shell | 31 | 6.2 |
Git R | 22 | 4.4 |
Git Python R Unix Shell | 19 | 3.8 |
Git Unix Shell | 17 | 3.4 |
Git Python SQL | 16 | 3.2 |
R | 15 | 3.0 |
Git R SQL Unix Shell | 12 | 2.4 |
Matrix of combinations of tools covered.
Cloud Computing | Git | I don’t remember. | MATLAB | Mercurial | OpenRefine | Python | R | Spreadsheets | SQL | Unix Shell | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloud Computing | 15 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
Git | 10 | 378 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 256 | 139 | 9 | 115 | 257 |
I don’t remember. | 3 | 18 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
MATLAB | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Mercurial | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
OpenRefine | 2 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 12 | 23 | 13 | 19 | 10 |
Python | 6 | 256 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 301 | 68 | 6 | 91 | 202 |
R | 8 | 139 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 68 | 200 | 20 | 67 | 104 |
Spreadsheets | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 11 |
SQL | 2 | 115 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 91 | 67 | 17 | 139 | 85 |
Unix Shell | 10 | 257 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 202 | 104 | 11 | 85 | 291 |
Behaviors Adopted
Which of the following behaviors have you adopted as a result of completing a Carpentries workshop? Check all that apply.
Behaviors_Adopted | n | % |
---|---|---|
Using programming languages like R or Python, or the command line to automate repetitive tasks. | 274 | 66.2 |
Improving data management and project organization. | 204 | 49.3 |
Using version control to manage code. | 191 | 46.1 |
Reusing code. | 180 | 43.5 |
Sharing code or data publicly on places like GitHub or FigShare. | 128 | 30.9 |
Using databases, scripts and queries to manage large data sets. | 124 | 30.0 |
Using version control to collaborate online (in public or private repositories). | 123 | 29.7 |
Transforming step-by-step workflows into scripts or functions. | 118 | 28.5 |
Developing a data management and analysis plan. | 75 | 18.1 |
Behaviors_Adopted | Academic Research Staff | Faculty | Graduate Student | Industry | Postdoc | Undergraduate Student |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Developing a data management and analysis plan. | 9.8 | 16.1 | 17.4 | 22.0 | 12.0 | 0 |
Improving data management and project organization. | 39.3 | 48.2 | 41.3 | 45.8 | 41.3 | 0 |
Reusing code. | 34.4 | 35.7 | 37.7 | 37.3 | 34.8 | 20 |
Sharing code or data publicly on places like GitHub or FigShare. | 23.0 | 28.6 | 24.6 | 28.8 | 25.0 | 30 |
Transforming step-by-step workflows into scripts or functions. | 24.6 | 19.6 | 26.9 | 27.1 | 26.1 | 20 |
Using databases, scripts and queries to manage large data sets. | 19.7 | 19.6 | 25.7 | 28.8 | 31.5 | 10 |
Using programming languages like R or Python, or the command line to automate repetitive tasks. | 59.0 | 53.6 | 58.1 | 59.3 | 59.8 | 20 |
Using version control to collaborate online (in public or private repositories). | 26.2 | 32.1 | 19.2 | 44.1 | 21.7 | 40 |
Using version control to manage code. | 45.9 | 42.9 | 33.5 | 61.0 | 31.5 | 30 |