Tim Dennis
timdennis@ucla.edu · tim-dennis.com · ORCID 0000-0001-6632-3812 · GitHub: jt14den
Experience
Los Angeles, CA
Lead a unit that supports researchers throughout the full data life cycle: planning research projects and data management plans; data acquisition, storage, cleaning, and usage; analysis; publication; curation; and preservation.
La Jolla, CA
Provided consultation and training on data discovery and re-use, research data management, and statistical programming to students, faculty, and staff. Identified and acquired new data resources. Collaborated with non-Library campus data service providers. Provided technology training and mentoring to library staff.
Berkeley, CA
Provided numeric data and quantitative reasoning consultation to students and faculty. Co-designed, opened, and managed the Library Data Lab in 2008. Established the Library's LibTech training programming providing internal training on a diverse array of technologies including Google Analytics, web widgets, Python, and Drupal.
Education
School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
Grants & funding
- Lessons for Librarians in Open Science (IMLS Grant) 2023
Institute of Museum and Library Services · $237,000
Principal Investigator
$237,000 IMLS National Leadership Grant to develop open science curriculum for library professionals.
- UC Open Source Program Office Network (Sloan Grant) 2023
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation · $1,850,000
Co-Principal Investigator (UCLA Lead)
$1.85M Sloan Foundation grant to build a UC-wide OSPO network.
Publications
- Lessons for Librarians in Open Science (IMLS Curriculum) 2024
Curriculum · IMLS National Leadership Grant
- UC Open Source Program Office Network (Sloan Foundation Grant) 2023
Report · Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Group 2022
Other · Library Carpentry / The Carpentries
- From a Data Archive to Data Science: Supporting Current Research 2021
Book chapter · Data Science in the Library: Tools and Strategies for Supporting Data-Driven Research and Instruction, ed. Joel Herndon. Facet Publishing.
- I See, UC, We All See Carpentries: Collaboratively Scaling Workshop Instruction Across a University System 2021
Other · The Carpentries Blog
- Library Carpentry: Tidy Data for Librarians 2020
Curriculum · Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3954067 - Top 10 FAIR Data and Software Things 2019
Other · Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2555498 - Using R and ggvis to Create Interactive Graphics for Exploratory Data Analysis 2016
Book chapter · Data Visualization: A Guide to Visual Storytelling for Libraries, ed. Lauren Magnuson. Rowman & Littlefield.
Conference presentations
- Championing Data Literacy Through Networked Communities: Multi-Campus Carpentries Models 2026
IASSIST 2026 (Online) · Panelist
- Open Source as Institutional Infrastructure: Lessons from the UC OSPO Network 2026
IASSIST 2026 (Online) · Speaker
- Radical Partnerships: Expanding Academic Collaboration in Data and Computational Sciences 2022
CNI Spring 2022 Membership Meeting, San Diego, CA · Presenter (with S. Labou, H. Dekker, J. Herndon)
- The Carpentries: Building Local and Global Communities of Practice to Improve Data Skills 2019
AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, CA · Invited Speaker
- From a Data Archive to Data Science: Supporting Current Research 2019
IASSIST 2019, Sydney, Australia · Presenter
- Library Carpentry: Software and Data Skills for Library Professionals 2018
European Library Automation Group (ELAG) 2018, Prague, Czech Republic · Presenter
- Library Carpentry and the Path to Certified Instruction 2017
csv,conf, Portland, OR · Speaker
- Positioning Libraries to Support Data Science 2017
LIASA Annual Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa · Keynote speaker
Selected instruction
- Instructor, Carpentry Workshops 2015 – 2022
Taught over 50 Library, Data, and Software Carpentry boot-camp workshops covering foundational coding and data science skills.
- Instructor Trainer, The Carpentries 2017 – 2022
Taught over 10 instructor training workshops on evidence-based teaching best practices.
- Teaching Faculty, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) 2019 – 2021
Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training — provided participants with an overview of tools and practices for transparent and reproducible social science research.
Professional service
- 2021 – present Chair, Curriculum Advisory Committee, Library Carpentry
- 2017 – present Carpentries Instructor Trainer
- 2016 – present Carpentries Instructor
- 2017 – present Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in Social Science (BITSS) Catalyst
- 2016 – present Open Science Framework Ambassador
Memberships
- 2010 – present International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST)
- 2015 – present The Carpentries
- 2017 – present Research Data Alliance
- 2015 – present Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Technical skills
Languages: Python, R, HTML, CSS, JSON, PHP, SQL
Technologies: MySQL, SQLite, LaTeX, Bash, Git, Jupyter, RStudio, Stata, SAS, SPSS