Give this lesson a clear purpose

[librarycarpentry]

Give this lesson a clear purpose

[ccronje]

Maintainers @sharilaster @antonangelo @ppival have sought feedback from instructors of this lesson. This will clarify the purpose of this lesson (what has worked well, what could be improved etc). We hope to discuss this in May before the Mozilla Sprint.

[drjwbaker]

fyi I'll struggle to make the sprint, but if you need my input to copy edit the revised lesson, happy to.

[drjwbaker]

Building on #51 (comment)

[jt14den]

I see two purposes: an intro to programming and an intro to concepts for working with untidy data. The intro to data (tidy data) is continued thru OpenRefine whereas bash introduces core programming concepts. I personally think we should incorporate concepts in 'tidy data in a spreadsheet' as part of this lesson and make sure we build upon those concepts in OR.

[drjwbaker]

Thanks @jt14den. Parts of https://librarycarpentry.org/lc-data-intro/03-foundations/index.html do that already, albeit not very well. Feels like we could reorganise this into three parts:

1. jargon busting (icebreaker)
2. from untidy to tidy data (principles)
3. regex (first intro to programming)

1 and 3 are there. So this would just require some proper thinking about 2.

[ccronje]

Closing this issue. Will open a new issue once feedback from trainers collected (see #80 (comment))