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

Getting started with HPC using PBS Pro at La Trobe Online

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Is your computer's limited power throttling your research ambitions? Are your analysis scripts pushing your laptop's processor to its limits? Is your software crashing because you’ve run out of memory? Would you like to unleash to power of the Unix command line to automate and run your analysis...

Unix Shell and Command Line Basics at La Trobe Online

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The Unix environment is incredibly powerful but quite daunting to the newcomer. Command line confidence unlocks powerful computing resources beyond the desktop, including virtual machines and High Performance Computing. It enables repetitive tasks to be automated. And it comes with a swag of...

Data Manipulation and Visualisation in Python at La Trobe Online

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Python has deservedly become a popular language for scientific computing. It has all the friendly features and conveniences you'd expect of a modern programming language, and also a rich set of libraries for working with data.

In this workshop, you will explore DataFrames in depth (using the...

Longitudinal Trials with REDCap at La Trobe Online

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REDCap is a powerful and extensible application for managing and running longitiudinal data collection activities. With powerful features such as organising data collections instruments into predefined events, you can shephard your participants through a complex survey at various time points with...

Data Capture and Surveys with REDCap at La Trobe Online

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Would you like to enable secure and reliable data collection forms and manage online surveys? Would your study benefit from web-based data entry? Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) might be for you.

This course will introduce you to REDCap, a rapidly evolving web tool developed by...

ARDC 2023 Skills Summit - Frameworks Panel Discussion (Day 2 - February 10, 2023)

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Presentations to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023 (Panel Talks Day 2 - February 10th, 2023)

Dr Peter Derbyshire - Unpacking the ATSE report - Our STEM skilled future and the need for a national skills taxonomy
Anthony Beitz - Applying Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) within DSTG
Kate...

ARDC 2023 Skills Summit Lightning Talks (Day 2 - February 10, 2023)

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Presentations to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023 (Lightning Talks Day 2 - February 10th, 2023)
Dr Nisha Ghatak - From local to the global: NeSI's efforts in building digital skills capabilities across Aotearoa
Dr Melissa Burke - No one has time for training. Is doing less the answer?
Dr Giorgia Mori...

ARDC 2023 Skills Summit Lightning Talks (Day 1 - February 9, 2023)

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Presentations to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023 (Lightning Talks Day 1 - February 9th, 2023)
Dr Pablo Franco - Assessing the effectiveness of training: Teaching digital skills to researchers
Aidan Wilson - Scaling training operations & succession planning
Dr Paula Martinez - Building...

Setting The Scene

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Opening Address for the ARDC Skills Summit 2023

This presentation provides a welcome to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023, and includes an outline of the importance of digital research skills to data-enriched research, the value of skills training and highly skilled research workforce to the broader...

Professionalizing Training - Origin Stories for the Modern Researcher

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Keynote Presentation for the ARDC Skills Summit 2023

This keynote presentation provides a brief outline of Jason William’s experience and an overview of the training initiatives he has been involved in. His presentation looks at what makes a good researcher and provokes thinking about modern...