🔎 **Archaeoanalysis Hackathon: Turn metadata into data!**
Hackathon in cooperation with @dai_weltweit @WiNoDa @nfdi4objects
🗓 30 Jun – 3 Jul 2026, IT‑Center, RWTH Aachen
💾 1.5 M records, one dataset – bring your own laptop
🥗 Catering provided, **free participation**!
📊 Judging: data‑quality, reproducibility, novelty, reuse, communication
🔗 more info & registration: https://www.dkz2r.de/events/2026-06-30_archaeoanalysis_hackathon/

#RWTH #Hackathon #Archaeoanalysis #DataScience #Metadata #FreeEvent

# 🚀 Battle of the Editors – Join the Ultimate Coding‑Wizard Showdown!
Meet fellow command‑line wizards, learn new workflows, discover editor tricks, and win small prizes – all in a fun, competitive atmosphere.

🗓 When: 30 June 2026, 4:30–6:30 pm
📍Where: RWTH IT Center (Kopernikusstr. 6, Aachen)
💻 What: Bring any editor you love and prove your skill in multiple fast‑paced rounds that test speed and accuracy. Beginners and experts are welcome!

#emacs #neovim #vscode #editors #competition

What counts as "research data"?

Measurements, survey responses, images, code, simulations, interviews, sensor readings, field notes, 3D scans — all of it.

Research data are any data created, collected, or evaluated during scientific work. And they all deserve proper management.

👉 https://forschungsdaten.info/themen/informieren-und-planen/was-sind-forschungsdaten/

#ResearchData #RDM #DataLiteracy #Science
— bos

Can your analysis be reproduced by someone else? By you, in six months?

Reproducibility isn't just about publishing code — it's about documenting your environment, your data, and every decision along the way.

Small steps: use virtual environments, pin your dependencies, write a README.

👉 https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/reproducible-research/

#Reproducibility #OpenScience #ResearchData #DataLiteracy
— bos

The 3-2-1 backup rule for research data:

3️⃣ Keep 3 copies of your data
2️⃣ Store them on 2 different media types
1️⃣ Keep 1 copy off-site

Hard drives fail. Laptops get stolen. Cloud services go down. Your data is worth more than your equipment. Take care of it and spend some thoughts how to manage it.

👉 https://forschungsdaten.info/themen/organisieren-und-aufbereiten/speichern-und-sichern/

#DataBackup #RDM #ResearchData #DataSafety
— bos

Interested in learning how to use LaTeX but don't know where to start?
Want to see how to move away from MS Word and still make professional looking papers?

Join us in person in Cologne on April 9th and 10th for a FREE LaTeX workshop presented by DKZ.2R!

Additional Info and Registration here 👉 https://www.dkz2r.de/events/2026-04-09-latex-academic-publishing/

#TeXLaTeX #AcademicWriting #Research #Workshop

Still fighting with Word to format your thesis? LaTeX handles citations, cross-references, figures, and formatting automatically — so you can focus on writing, not fixing page breaks.

Our workshop covers everything from setup to submission-ready documents.

Have a look at the self-learn content we created in the style of @thecarpentries

👉 https://dkz2r.github.io/latex-novice-academic-publishing/01-introduction.html

#TeXLaTeX #AcademicWriting #Research #Workshop

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