What does The Carpentries actually do?

We help researchers build practical data and computational skills and we train people to teach those skills to others.

That approach has helped grow a global community:
• 5,405 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬
• 185 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬
• 4,965 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 72 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

But the real impact is personal.

“Changed my career trajectory in a very positive way.”
— 𝘋𝘳. 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘤𝘬, 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳

“It has made me a more confident instructor of coding and coding-adjacent skills.”
— 𝘋𝘳. 𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘒𝘪𝘴, 𝘓𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘳, 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢

Our new Partnership Program helps organisations support these kinds of outcomes through workshops, instructor training, lesson development, and community building.

Read the stories from our community: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/who-are-the-carpentries/

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Why do organisations partner with The Carpentries? To build sustainable training capacity for data and computational skills.

Our global community now includes:

72 countries with workshops
5,382 instructors
185 Instructor Trainers
4,950 workshops delivered.

Partnerships can include combinations of:

- Instructor Training seats
- Collaborative Lesson Development training seats
- professional development in digital workforce skills
- consultation and support for building local communities of practice.

The goal is not just to run workshops. It is to help organisations grow their own training communities. Read more in our latest blog post: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/why-partner-with-the-carpentries/

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🆕🎦 New learning videos in our video course:

Reading Inventory Cards: OCR & HTR for Collection Records: https://tinyurl.com/4huphuxu by @mathias_zinnen from @SODa

SQL with Archaeological Data: https://tinyurl.com/yc6rn5hv by @fabr from @dai_weltweit

👩‍🎓 Learn in your own pace with any of 30 videos in our channel: https://tinyurl.com/2sexbvm9

🔜 New videos every few weeks.

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Our impact starts with people. Behind every Carpentries workshop is a community of Instructor Trainers, Instructors, Maintainers, and many other contributors working together to build data and computational skills worldwide. 🌍

Instructor Trainers prepare new Instructors in evidence-based teaching practices. Those Instructors then teach workshops that reach hundreds of learners. That’s the multiplier effect at the heart of The Carpentries.

Read the blog: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/how-the-carpentries-community-multiplies-skills-worldwide/

🚀 We’ve launched a new Partnership program to help organisations build sustainable training capacity. Join our upcoming info sessions to learn more:

👉 Session 1: 21 April 2026, 16:30 UTC (Register and find your local time here: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/745/)

👉 Session 2: 22 April 2026, 09:00 UTC (Register and find your local time here: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/746/)

#OpenScience #TheCarpentries #DataSkills

🆕🎦 Two new learning videos in our youtube video course:

OpenRefine I: https://tinyurl.com/323vk7nd
OpenRefine II: https://tinyurl.com/ytvyzp92

The course has 7 learnings online. 4 more soon to follow. Start your learning now: https://tinyurl.com/bdex3muy

⏩ Data cleaning with OpenRefine isn't for you? Fast forward your skills with any of the 27 free videos to choose from: https://tinyurl.com/5x2yccp6

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Before asking ChatGPT to clean or analyze data —
try Excel tools like Sort, Filter, Pivot Tables.

Faster. Safer. Built for real data.
Excel is still the real workhorse.
@Microsoft @excelwizardd
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Most R scripts look like we’ve been operating with boxing gloves on. 🥊

What if you wrote code like a surgeon instead – small, precise, deliberate changes that actually fix the problem?

That’s how I teach R at DataSharp Academy: clean, readable code you can trust and reuse.

Sharpen your skills with Karpuz:
https://datasharpacademy.com/workshop-rfundamentals/

Code less chaotically. Think more clearly.

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