Feedback from EASTBIO delivery 2023-12-01

[ewallace]

I delivered some of this material, in 3hours, to 1st year PhD students in EASTBIO program (Scotland) 2023-12-01.

Collaborative document:
https://pad.carpentries.org/2023-12-01_EASTBIO-good-practice

It felt like we had a good session, students contributed to discussions and asked a few questions, and several said that it was helpful in the zoom chat. Based on the interactions and flow of discussions, we focused more on data management (including asking for or writing data management plans), software (the idea that all data analysis is software) and README files to describe collaboration and organisation. Later episodes (organisation, tracking changes, manuscripts) were only briefly mentioned by describing the key points.

Evaluation and Feedback

Please list one thing you liked or found particularly useful

• File types discussion was very helpful
• hear about a DMP as well as fily tpe discussion
• Discussion groups were helpful to hear others opinions/experiences
  learning multipul ways/places to back up data/code/files
• the range of areas covered (from handling raw data to readme files)
• The best ways to store data successfully with minimal chances of data loss
• different ways for storing/sharing data for specific cases

Please list another thing you found less useful, or that could be improved

• an anonymised voting
• ending the breaktout rooms automatically and sending everyone directly back to the main room