About

The Northeast Carpentries Community

The Northeast Carpentries Community envisions a more connected and collaborative Carpentries community throughout New England and the broader Northeast region. Recognizing that geographical distance is less of a barrier thanks to virtual communication platforms, we envision a community that strengthens the regional research and teaching ecosystem. The scope of this group would be to create a supportive network for peers to share ideas, coordinate activities, and increase the overall impact of data and computational skills training at individual institutions.

The community will meet regularly, encourage broad participation from all levels of staff who are responsible for or involved in teaching data science, and act as a central hub for instructors and volunteers to share expertise, troubleshoot challenges, and collectively advance the goals of The Carpentries within our geographic area. By fostering this collaborative environment, we can address shared institutional challenges more effectively and create a sustainable network of support for all members.

NESCLiC

The New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium or NESCLiC is now part of the  official Northeast Carpentries community. We’re an association of New England and northeastern academic institutions, joined as a community of practice focused on building data science skills in research computing, and extracting, wrangling, storing, analyzing, and visualizing data.

Since being founded in 2017, NESCLiC has organized cohorts of Carpentries instructors from over 13 institutions to become certified from 2018-2025, hosted or taught more than 30 Carpentry events, and previously collaborated on publications and presentations.

Learn more information about being a part of the Northeast Carpentries community, where our focus is on teaching, sharing resources, networking, and community engagement with a wider impact.

About The Carpentries

The Carpentries’ workshops are hands-on two-day events that cover the core skills needed to be productive in a small team. Instruction sessions are integrated with practical exercises, and all instruction is done via live coding.

Software Carpentry workshops focus on automating tasks, how to track and share work using version control, and how to write software that is readable, reusable, and reliable.

Data Carpentry workshops are domain-specific, and follow a narrative structure, working with one dataset through the whole data lifecycle from project organization to visualization.

Library Carpentry workshops are designed to help library professionals. Lessons include SQL, web scraping, data cleaning and tidying. It is not formally associated with the Carpentries.