August 17 & 18, 2026
8:45 am - 5:00 pm CDT (13:45 pm - 10:00 pm UTC)
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Instructors: Auriel Fournier, Elizabeth Wickes, Felipe Menanteau, Isaac Overcast
Helpers: Geoff Ower, Matt Yoder, Emily Benton
The Carpentries project comprises the Data Carpentry, High Performance Computing Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".
Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct, which also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
August 17 & 18, 2026; 8:45 am - 5:00 pm CDT (13:45 pm - 10:00 pm UTC)
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Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody.
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We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. We do not require participants to provide documentation of disabilities or disclose any unnecessary personal information. However, we do want to help create an inclusive, accessible experience for all participants. We encourage you to share any information that would be helpful to make your Carpentries experience accessible. To request accessibility support for this workshop, please fill out the accessibility support request form. If you have questions or need assistance with the accessibility support form please email us.
Glosario is a multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms. The glossary helps learners attend workshops and use our lessons to make sense of computational and programming jargon written in English by offering it in their native language. Translating data science terms also provides a teaching tool for Carpentries Instructors to reduce barriers for their learners.
Carpentries workshops are designed to be interactive rather than lecture-based, with lessons that build upon one another. To foster a positive online learning environment, we strongly recommend that participants join in real time. As a result, workshop recordings are not recommended and may not be available to learners.
Please email wickes1@illinois.edu , auriel@illinois.edu or dlpaul@illinois.edu for more information.
For answers to frequently asked questions about workshops, refer to the Carpentries Workshop FAQ.
Please fill out this survey before attending the workshop.
Fill Out the Pre-Workshop SurveyPlease fill out this survey before you leave the workshop.
Fill Out the Post-Workshop Survey| Before starting | Pre-workshop survey |
| Morning | Introduction to Geospatial Concepts |
| Introduction to R for Geospatial Data | |
| Afternoon | Introduction to R for Geospatial Data (continued) |
| Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R (Part 1) | |
| Evening | END |
| Morning | Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R (Part 2) |
| Afternoon | Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R (Part 3) |
| Evening | Post-workshop survey |
| END |
To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
The setup instructions for the Data Carpentry Geospatial workshop can be found at the workshop overview site.