index.html

---
title: Welcome to BioData Club!
layout: splash
classes: wide
header:
  overlay_color: "#333"
  overlay_filter: "0.20"
  overlay_image: /assets/img/biodataclubphoto.jpg
excerpt: "Let's learn about data science together"
intro:
  -  image_path: /assets/img/Hex-BDP-small.png
     alt: "BioData Club logo"
     title: "What is BioData Club?"
     excerpt: "BioData Club is an informal and interdisciplinary co-learning initiative. We come together to share skills, ask questions, and learn about data science skills and open research tools. The model brings together learners starting from scratch (write your first line of code!) data science experts, and everyone in between to gain new data skills, troubleshoot projects, practice teaching in an informal context, and connect with other data and open science enthusiasts. <br><br>
The BioData Club Kit will help you start your own co-learning community! In addition to a website template, we’ve included a few of our most successful lessons, advice and resources for building a local co-learning club (we’ve leveraged a lot of good work from other organizations), and surveys for understanding your community's needs and goals.<br><br>"
     url: http://github.com/biodataclubkit/biodataclubkit.github.io
     btn_label: Download the Kit
     btn_class: "btn--primary"
events:
  - title: "Events"
    excerpt: "BioData Clubs host two types of events:  practical learning workshops and hacky hours, often linked by a shared theme.  Hacky hours are for networking.  People come to talk about their work, get feedback, and have fun!  Our goal is co-learning, and we believe we have a lot to teach each other."
contact:
  - title: "Contact Us"
    excerpt: "Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or expert, we want you to be involved with BioData Club."
get_involved:
  -  title: "Teach and Organize"
     btn_label: "Suggest an Event"
     btn_class: "btn--primary"
     url: /teaching/
     excerpt: "We're all learners in BioData Club. If there's something you want to learn, we want to help you learn it. Suggest an event, and if you're interested in helping teach it, we'll help you!"
  -  title: "Slack"
     excerpt: "Slack can be a great tool for facilating conversations and getting questions answered between BioData Club events."
     url: https://slack.com/
     btn_label: "Join Slack"
     btn_class: "btn--primary"
  -  title: "Mailing List"
     excerpt: "We recommend setting up an open, unmoderated mailing list to announce events and communicate with community members."
     btn_label: "Mailing List"
     btn_class: "btn--primary"
     url: http://tinyletter.com/biodataclub
acknowledgements:
  - title: "Acknowledgements"
    image_path: "/assets/img/CD2H-logo.png"
    excerpt: "This kit is a project of the NCATS Center for Data to Health (CD2H). All content is released under a Creative Commons BY 2.0 License."
---
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