Empowering African Researchers: Building Data and Coding Skills with The Carpentries
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Speaker's Profile:
Angelique Trusler,
Community Manager at The Carpentries
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2340-8538
Dr. Angelique Trusler, with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, is the Community Manager at The Carpentries in Africa and a Researcher at North-West University in South Africa. She leads efforts to enhance researchers' data science skills across Africa, organizing workshops and training programs. Under her leadership, The Carpentries in Africa has grown significantly, hosting over 200 workshops and certifying more than 160 instructors.
Dr. Trusler also spearheaded translating a computing glossary into seven African languages, including Afrikaans, Setswana, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Amharic, Kiswahili, and Southern Sotho, and hosted a major virtual event, CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021, with participants from 28 countries. Passionate about open science, she collaborates with researchers to improve data science education and research, aiming for universal access to these crucial skills.
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Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494 Editing: Ebuka Ezeike
Music: Alex Lustig, produced by Kitty Kat
License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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