<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/sanjose-costarica.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" style="margin: 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; float: right;"></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">This school provides early career researchers (at MSc-level to 3 years after their PhD) from the Latin American Region with the necessary set of foundational data science skills to enable them to analyse their data in an efficient and effective manner for the 21st century.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Description:</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">The material covered here is fundamental to all areas of data science and hence open to researchers and professionals from all disciplines that deal with significant amounts of data. The goal is to provide a practical introduction to these topics with extensive labs and seminars.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Topics:</strong></p><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;list-style:none;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><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 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">Programming for Analysis</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">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">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">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">Data Visualization</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</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">Computational Infrastructures</li></ul><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">How to apply:</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Online application: <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="https://www.ictp-saifr.org/sis/datasci2019.php" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(45,53,142)">https://www.ictp-saifr.org/sis/datasci2019.php</a></strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Deadline: 1st October 2019</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Female students and scientists are encouraged to apply</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Grants:</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">The school has no cost, and a limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants from developing countries.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Directors:</strong><br>M. ALFARO CÓRDOBA, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica<br>R. COBE, UNESP, Brazil<br>R. QUICK, Indiana University, USA<br>H. SHANAHAN, Royal Holloway University, UK<br>L. BEZUIDENHOUT, University of Oxford, UK</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Local Organizers:</strong><br>C. GAMBOA, CNCA CeNAT<br>E. MENESES, CNCA CeNAT</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><img class="gmail-normal gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-4069" src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/sanjose2019.png" alt="" width="600" height="849" style="margin: 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: middle;"></p><div><br></div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">With very best wishes,</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

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Host International Data Week 2021 or 2023</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> - deadline 28
October</span></p>

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Research Data Science School, Costa Rica, 2-13 December 2019</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> - deadline 1
October 2019</span></p>

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CODATA-RDA Research Data Science School, Pretoria, 13–24 January 2020</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> - deadline 15
October 2019</span></p>

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on FAIR RDM</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">in
Institutions, 20-21 Oct (pre-RDA Event)</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> - </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/codata-helsinki-2019-workshop-on-fair-rdm-in-institutions-registration-66997233529" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">REGISTER NOW</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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Science Journal</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> <br><br></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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Assistant, CODATA | </span><a href="http://www.codata.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.codata.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016
Paris, FRANCE</span></p></div>