Welcome to Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA)

Browsing, discovering and organising digital research events and training resources, collected from Australasian providers.

Latest Content in DReSA

Storytelling with Data Visualisation

Event

Studies have shown that readers will only spend 3 to 8 seconds looking at each plot in a report before deciding whether to invest more time examining that plot or to move on to the next part of the report (Storytelling with Data, Cole).

This requires careful thought about the visualization...

Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) in Social Sciences

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Working with language and text can be challenging, but now we have a new tool, Large Language Models (LLMs), that offers a new way to not only analyse but also interact with text at an unprecedented scale. This masterclass is an introduction to LLMs in social sciences. You will learn about the...

R Software for Data Science

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One of the key skills in data science is making effective use of software for manipulating data and generating results. R is an established software environment used in the world of data science. In this course, you will be introduced to basic data wrangling, descriptive statistics, visualisation...

Spatial Analysis in R

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Designed for the applied users of R who want to take their spatial analysis to a higher level, this masterclass is intended for participants who have some experience using R. You will learn to use R and Markdown to clean and manipulate spatial data, produce high quality visualisations (including...

NVivo for a Literature Review

Event

NVivo can be a powerful tool to help you conduct your literature review in an effective and efficient way. This workshop introduces NVivo, and takes researchers through the process of sorting and organising literature and notes from readings in a systematic way.

The workshop is relevant to...

WEBINAR: MetaboLights: the home for metabolomics experiments and derived information

Material

This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘MetaboLights: the home for metabolomics experiments and derived information’. This webinar took place on 9 April 2024.
Event description
MetaboLights is an open-access database for metabolomics studies,...

WEBINAR: Multivariate integration of multi-omics data with mixOmics

Material

This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘Multivariate integration of multi-omics data with mixOmics’. This webinar took place on 6 March 2024.
Event description
Multi-omics data (eg. transcriptomics, proteomics) collected from the same set of...

WEBINAR: Scaling up bioinformatics with ABLeS, the Australian BioCommons Leadership Share

Material

This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘Scaling up bioinformatics with ABLeS, the Australian BioCommons Leadership Share’. This webinar took place on 12 March 2024.
Event description
The Australian BioCommons Leadership Share (ABLeS) supports...

WEBINAR: MaveDB: discovery and interpretation of high-throughput functional assay data

Material

This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘MaveDB: discovery and interpretation of high-throughput functional assay data’. This webinar took place on 26 March 2024.
Event description
Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are a family of...

Tutorials to learn how to use STAN

Material

Stan tutorials offer links to exceptional tutorial papers, videos and statistics to learn Bayesian statistical methods and applied statistics.