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Excel for Researchers at Adelaide

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This hands-on training guides researchers through the entire data lifecycle, from initial acquisition to visualisation. Researchers begin by learning robust data cleaning and preparation techniques, such as handling duplicates, splitting cell contents and utilising VLOOKUP, before progressing...

Getting started with HPC using Slurm at Deakin 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...

Data Manipulation and Visualisation in R at Deakin Online

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R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio and the Shiny web application framework.

In this workshop, you will learn how to manipulate, explore and get insights...

Unix Shell and Command Line Basics at Deakin 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...

Learn to Program: R at Deakin Online

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R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language of choice for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio development environment and the Shiny web application framework.

But getting started with R can be...

WORKSHOP: Spatial omics sampler

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This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Spatial omics sampler’. This workshop took place on 25 February 2025.
Event description
This workshop provides a practical introduction to comparative analysis of spatial omics data. Starting with a...

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R for reproducible science

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A collection of training events and materials that relate to using R to provide training and background on helping me make my research reproducible.