Welcome to the Learning Hub
Mission Statement
The NCEAS Learning Hub's mission is to support environmental scientists throughout their data science journey. We teach cutting-edge data science curriculum, facilitate collaborative learning, and promote best practices in open science. We empower data scientists to more efficiently answer environmental questions.
The Learning Hub Package
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Data Science Courses
Our courses and materials are digestible, intensive modules that will build your skills in a variety of data science topics, ranging from the basics of programming in a new language to advanced computing techniques. They are open to researchers from any discipline or sector.
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Customized Training
We offer fee-based customizable training for groups and institutions. We’ll teach your group best team science practices, encourage maximum participation and group cohesion, collaborative version control, and other essential trainings your group may need.
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Director's Scholarship
We recognize there are barriers to data science and are committed to advancing diversity and equity among course participants. To address the financial barrier of registration and travel costs, we are excited to offer The Director's Scholarship for the coreR Course.
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Community & Events
There’s no better way to learn data science than in community! We host events, lead and maintain community groups like EcoDataScience, and collaborate with data science groups like R-Ladies Santa Barbara to facilitate more engaging and welcoming learning experiences.
Upcoming Events & Opportunities
A five-day immersion in R programming for environmental data science. Researchers will gain experience with essential data science tools and best practices to increase their capacity as collaborators, reproducible coders, and open scientists. The course will be taught in-person in Santa Barbara. More details about the course here.
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NCEAS is committed to advancing diversity and equity among workshop participants. We recognize the financial barrier that registration and travel costs present and are excited to offer funding opportunities for the coreR Course. The Director's Scholarship is intended to support individuals who would otherwise not be able to participate.
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN
Open Source Resources
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Data Science Curriculum Catalog
Learning Hub materials have been historically developed for groups or programs requesting courses on open science and data science. However, these materials can be great reference material to use at your own pace.
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Science Communications Guides
The NCEAS communications team developed a series of guides to support your journey in science communications. Initially created for ecologists and data scientists, but can be applicable across disciplines.
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Working Group and Team Science Guidance
NCEAS and the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network have developed resources and guides for visiting working groups to support their team science, computing, analysis, and data science goals.
Access the resources
Our Team
Learning Hub materials and programming draw from the community of NCEAS residents who have expertise in a variety of tools and techniques used in both data science and synthesis science. Our instructors have experience using these tools in real scientific research and in teaching them to others. All NCEAS residents have an opportunity to teach.
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Questions?
Reach out to our Learning Hub Team at learning-hub@nceas.ucsb.edu. We'd love to connect.
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