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ARDC Research Software Rights Management Guide

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How researchers may license their research software in order to share it with others.

It addresses the types of open‑source licences, and considerations you (as a researcher) should have in deciding which licence to adopt for sharing.

ARDC Research Data Rights Management Guide

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A practical guide for people and organisations working with data, about rights information and licences, and to raise awareness of the implications of not having licences on data.

Who is this for? This guide is primarily directed toward members of the research sector, particularly data rights...

Beyond Basics: Conditionals and Visualisation in Excel at LTU Online

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After cleaning your dataset, you may need to apply some conditional analysis to glean greater insights from your data. You may also want to enhance your charts for inclusion into a manuscript, thesis or report by adding some statistical elements. This course will cover conditional syntax, nested...

Data Capture and Surveys with REDCap at LTU 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...

Learn to Program: R at LTU 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...

Surveying with Qualtrics at UC Online

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Needing to collect data from people in a structured and intuitive way? Have you thought about using Qualtrics?

Qualtrics in a powerful cloud-based survey tool, ideal for social scientists from all disciplines. This course will introduce the technical components of the whole research...

Data Manipulation and Visualisation in Python at UC 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...

WEBINAR: Global data resources for human genomics and health

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This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘Global data resources for human genomics and health’. This webinar took place on 20 September 2024.
Event description
Dr Mallory Freeberg takes us on a whirlwind tour of the human genomics data resources...

7 Steps towards Reproducible Research

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This workshop aims to take you further down your reproducibility path, by providing concepts and tools you can use in your everyday workflows. It is discipline and experience agnostic, and no coding experience is needed.

We will also examine how Reproducible Research builds business continuity...

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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.