Materials have been developed and adapted by many contributors and were originally adapted for an ecology audience in 2012 by Ethan White based on Greg Wilson's Software Carpentry lectures.
The first Data Carpentry workshop was run at NESCent on May 8-9, 2014 with the development and instruction of lessons by Karen Cranston, Hilmar Lapp, Tracy Teal and Ethan White and contributions from Deb Paul and Mike Smorul.
Data is from the Portal Project Teaching Database by S. K. Morgan Ernest, Thomas J. Valone, James H. Brown, and Ethan P. White.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1314459
Which was adapted from the paper: S. K. Morgan Ernest, Thomas J. Valone, and James H. Brown. 2009. Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA. Ecology 90:1708.
http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E090/118/
- Ethan White
- Greg Wilson
- Josh Herr
- Sophie Clayton
- Tracy Teal