Past DSC Workshops & Trainings
Overview
Here you can find a comprehensive overview of past workshops and data literacy trainings offered by the Data Science Center. The content is organized by topic — from data management and programming in R and Python to Git and Galaxy workshops.
Explore the topics we have covered so far and learn more about our education offers. If you are interested in a data science workshop tailored to your department, research group, or any other team, feel free to contact us by e-mail.
RDM (Research Data Management)
Title | Trainer | Date | Duration |
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From Everything, Everywhere, all at Once to Managed Data: Practical Strategies for Organizing Your Research Data | Sarah Büker | 05.11.2025 | 09:00 AM -03:00 PM |
From Data Chaos to Clarity: Essential Strategies for Research Data Management in Qualitative Research | Nele Fuchs | 25.06.2025 | 09:30 AM-01:00 PM |
Effective Note-taking and Citation Management with Obsidian and Zotero | Nele Fuchs | 06.05.-07.05.2025 | 09:00 AM-01:00 PM |
Obsidian for Researchers: Customizing Your Digital Research Assistant | Nele Fuchs | 16.10. & 19.11.2024 | 10:00 AM-03:00 PM (16.10.) |
Oops, I Did it Again... Getting Ready For Reproducible Research | Dr. Susanne de Vogel | 02.10.2024 | 09:30 AM-03:30 PM |
Let’s play LEGO®! Experience reproducible research in a practical way | Dipl.-Soz. Heike Thöricht | 18.06.2024 | 01:00-03:00 PM |
Handling Personal Data in Research | Dr. Sandra Zänkert DSC Data Steward | 09.08.2023 | 09:30 AM-03:00 PM |
How to document your research data – Keep calm and play with LEGO® | Dipl.-Soz. Heike Thöricht | 07.06.2023 | 02:00-04:00 PM |
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Create Your Own Data Management Plan: A Hands-On Workshop for Marine and Environmental Sciences | Sarah Büker | 10.11.2025 | 09:00 AM-12:30 PM |
Beyond the Manuscript: Strategies for Publishing Research Data in the Humanities | Nele Fuchs | 13.11.2024 | 10:00 AM-01:00 PM |
How to Draft a Data Management Plan (DMP) as a Social Scientist | Dipl.-Soz. Heike Thöricht | 10.03.2023 | 09:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Introduction to Research Data Management (RDM) for Social Scientists | Dipl.-Soz. Heike Thöricht | 16.02.2023 | 09:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Reproducibility Hackathon – ReproHack | Dr. Sandra Zänkert | 10.11.2022 | 10:00 AM-04:00 PM |
How to Create a Data Management Plan (DMP) as a Social Scientist | Dipl.-Soz. Heike Thöricht | 20.10.2022 | 09:00-11:30 AM |
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Title | Trainer | Date | Duration |
Hackathon: Explore Working on a (the DSC) HPC Cluster | Nele Fuchs, Annika Nolte DSC Data Scientist Nils Leusmann, Timo Laudi DSC Research Associates | 11.11.2025 | 01:00-05:30 PM |
From Audio to Text: Automated Transcriptions with Whisper | Nele Fuchs & Annika Nolte DSC Data Scientists | 30.09.2025 | 09:30 AM-12:30 PM 02:00-04:30 PM |
Opening the Black Box: Machine Learning in Earth and Environmental Sciences | Annika Nolte DSC Data Scientist | 03.07.-04.07.2025 | 09:30 AM-04:00 PM (03.07.) 09:30 AM-01:00 PM (04.07.) |
Developing, Checking, and Improving Code with the Help of LLMs | Annika Nolte DSC Data Scientist | 19.03.2025 | 10:00 AM-01:00 PM |
Python Workshops
Title | Trainer | Date | Duration |
SUMMER SCHOOL: Applied Text Mining using Python | Dr. Maryam Movahedifar | 14.07. - 17.07.2025 | 09:30 AM-12:30 PM |
Python Quickstart for Quantitative Data | Annika Nolte | 24.06.2025 | 10:00 AM-01:00 PM |
Python Quickstart for Qualitative Data | Annika Nolte & Nele Fuchs | 13.05.2025 | 09:30 AM-01:00 PM |
Applied Text Mining Using Python | Dr. Maryam Movahedifar | 04.12.-06-12.2024 | 09:00 AM-12:30 PM |
Data Visualization And Communication Using Python and Jupyter For The Earth Sciences | Annika Nolte | 12.11.2024 | 09:00 AM-05:00 PM |
Time Series Analysis And Prediction Using Python and Jupyter For The Earth Sciences | Dr. Maryam Movahedifar & | 28.10. - 30.10.2024 | 09:00 AM-05:00 PM (28.-29.10.) |
R Workshops
Title | Trainer | Date | Duration |
No Messy Data – Introduction to Data Cleaning and Pre-processing in R | Dr. Susanne de Vogel DSC Data Scientist | 04.11.2025 | 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM |
Bring Your Data Analysis to Life with Shiny in R | Dr. Maryam Movahedifar DSC Data Scientist | 29.10.2025 | 09:30 AM -12:30 PM & 01:30 PM -04:30 PM |
Data Visualization with R: ggplot2 & Shiny | Dr. Maryam Movahedifar DSC Data Scientist | 02.04.2025 | 09:30 AM -12:30 PM 02:00 - 05:00 PM |
Introduction to Geospatial Data Analysis for Social and Health Sciences | Annika Nolte & Dr. Susanne de Vogel DSC Data Scientists | 15.04.-16.04.2025 | 09:30 AM -04:00 PM (15.04.) 09:30 AM -01:00 PM (16.04.) |
Git Workshops
Title | Trainer | Date | Duration |
Getting Git-Ready | Annika Nolte - DSC Data Scientist Nils Leusmann & Timo Laudi DSC Research Associates | 26.11.2025 | 09:30 AM-04:00 PM |
Getting Git-Ready | Annika Nolte & Nils Leusmann Data Science Center | 26.03.2025 | 10:00 AM-04:00 PM |
Git for Dummies | Dr. Sandra Zänkert DSC Data Steward | 15.02.2023 | 09:00 AM-03:00 PM |
Git for Dummies | Dr. Sandra Zänkert DSC Data Steward | 02.11.2022 | 09:00 AM-01:00 PM |
Survey Data & Survey Design
Title | Trainer | Date | Duration |
Good Planning, Better Survey Data – Introduction to Web Survey Design | Dr. Susanne de Vogel | 02.06.2025 | 09:30 AM-03:30 PM |
Good Questions, Better Survey Data: An Introduction to Effective Questionnaire Design | Dr. Susanne de Vogel | 19.05.2025 | 09:30 AM-03:30 PM |
Faster, Harder, Data – Introduction Into Web Survey Design | Dr. Susanne de Vogel | 02.12.2024 | 09:30 AM-01:00 PM |
Brick by Brick: Making Survey Data FAIR with LEGO® | Dipl.-Soz. Heike Thöricht | 21.11.2024 | 09:00 AM-01:00 PM |
The Question is What is The Question – Ensuring Survey Data Quality With Good Questionnaire Designs | Dr. Susanne de Vogel | 18.11.2024 | 09:30 AM-03:30 PM |
Galaxy Workshops
Title | Trainer | Date | Duration |
Accessible Data Analysis for Everyone: Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis with Galaxy | Sarah Büker DSC Data Scientist | 18.11.2025 | 09:00 AM-12:30 PM |
Bioinformatics Made Easy: A Hands-On Galaxy Workshop for Biologists | Sarah Büker DSC Data Scientist | 26.05.2025 | 09:00 AM-12:30 PM |
Simplifying Data Science with Galaxy: A Beginner’s Workshop | Sarah Büker DSC Data Scientist | 20.05.2025 | 09:00 AM-12:30 PM |
How Much is The Fish? – Unlocking the Secrets of Metabarcoding and Mastering Sequence Data Management (Metabarcoding 1) | Sarah Büker DSC Data Scientist | 11.11.2024 | 09:00 AM -12:00 PM |
Finding Nemo: The Art of Sequence Data Analysis (Metabarcoding 2) | Sarah Büker DSC Data Scientist | 27.01.2025 & 28.01.2025 | 10:00 AM -05:00 PM |
Other Topics
Title | Trainer*in | Date | Duration |
Data-Driven Journalism and Science Communication | Serafin Arhelger Data Journalist (NDR Data Team) | 19.11.2025 | 10:00 AM -03:00 PM |