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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Might be of good opportunity for GeoForAll to get involved and contribute .</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Victoria, Serena, please see the details . Might be good opportunity to contact CODATA to explore synergies. Thanks.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Best wishes,</p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [CODATA-international] Call for Applications - The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science School, Pretoria 13- 24 January 2020 - Deadline 15 October 2019</font>
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University of Pretoria – Department of Information Science in collaboration with DIRISA, SADiLaR and NeDICC</p>
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13–24 January 2020</strong></em><br>
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Pretoria, South Africa</strong></em></p>
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The school provides early career researchers (M-level to postdoc) with the foundational data science skills, which include technical skills and responsible research practices, to enable them to work with their data in an effective and efficient manner required
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Description</h1>
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The material covered by the programme is fundamental to all areas of research, and thus open to researchers and professionals from all disciplines that deal with signifi amounts of research data. The goal is to provide a practical introduction to these topics
with some theory and extensive hands-on training.</p>
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Topics</h1>
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Open Science</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Introduction to Unix Shell</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Introduction to Git</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Open and Collaborative Research</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Research Data Management</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Data Cleaning – using Open Refine</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Data Analysis and Visualisation – using R</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Data Intensive Social Science</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Author Carpentry</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Information Security</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Machine Learning and Neural Networks</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
Research Computational Infrastructure</li></ul>
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Costs</h1>
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The school is heavily sponsored. Successful applicants will be expected to pay a fee of R1 150 once the application is accepted. This fee includes all training and catering (lunches). Applicants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements.</p>
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<strong style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top">Application deadline: 15 October 2019</strong><br>
Online application and further information:<br>
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International Directors</h1>
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H Shanahan (Royal Holloway University, UK)</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
L Bezuidenhout (University of Oxford, UK)</li></ul>
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A Vahed (DIRISA) | B Peterson, (NWU)</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
J Steyn (SADiLAR, NWU)</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
J van Wyk (NeDICC) M Holmner (UP)</li><li style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 19px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-family:inherit; vertical-align:top; background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:0% 7px; line-height:26px">
M van Deventer (UP)</li></ul>
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Thanks,</p>
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