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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">***Early Bird Registration ends today, March 25, 2016***</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.asis.org/rdap/registration-faq/">Register</a> now for the Research Data Access & Preservation Summit (RDAP)
2016 in Sunny Atlanta, GA!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The conference dates are May 4-5, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For more information on the conference, including the program and registration information, please visit the website: <a href="http://www.asis.org/rdap/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">http://www.asis.org/rdap/</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">New this year, we will also be holding a <a href="http://www.datacarpentry.org/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Data Carpentry
Workshop</a> after the conference on May 6-7, 2016. Data Carpentry will consist of two days of hands-on training in the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Spreadsheet Best Practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Open Refine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Introduction to R<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Introduction to SQL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Analysis and Visualization in R<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the conference chair, Lisa Zilinski (<a href="mailto:ldz@andrew.cmu.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">ldz@andrew.cmu.edu</a>). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On behalf of the RDAP 2016 Planning Committee, we hope to see you there.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cheers,</span></p>
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