This is the second of three modules in our exciting new machine learning workshop series by the Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH).

Module 1: https://youtu.be/dMwHFhKWRRI

Module 3:...

This is the first of four modules in our exciting new machine learning workshop series by the Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH).

Module 2: https://youtu.be/HVAFflj2PS0
Module 3:...

The Geodata-Harvester project enables researchers with reusable workflows and provides open-source software for automatic data extraction from a wide range of data sources including spatial-temporal processing.

This workshop follows the notes from...

Nathaniel Butterworth, the Research Computing Group Lead from the Sydney Informatics Hub at the University of Sydney, gives insights into the current state of Cloud Computing and a general overview of current platforms and services available to researchers.

*The Sydney Informatics Hub is a...

A personal blog or website gives you a permanent home for your research profile – it can be a great way to share your portfolio, publicize your research, and share your knowledge with the world.

In this workshop we’ll give an overview of how to set up a website using free tools like Pelican or...

Stanislaus Stadlmann, a statistical consultant with the Sydney Informatics Hub, conducts a masterclass on Distributional Regression.

He discusses:

1. SIH masterclasses in general
2. Regression Analysis: How we got here
3. Distributional Regression and its applications

*The Sydney...

Bioinformatics is a vital component of biological and medical research, supporting data-driven discoveries, genomic medicine, and the development of innovative therapeutics. As the life sciences becomes increasingly data-driven, ‘doing’ bioinformatics to extract, process, analyse, and interpret...

How to stay safe in a connected world.

The internet has become an integral part of our daily lives. We rely on being connected for countless tasks, from managing our finances to social networking. However, as recent data breaches at Optus and Medibank have highlighted, this doesn’t come...

Learn how to use Git and RStudio together for version control and collaboration. We provide hands-on assistance in getting Git and RStudio to communicate effectively. This Masterclass will highlight the importance of making collaboration transparent for everyone, as well as the benefits of using...

This Masterclass is an informative training session on data storytelling, designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge to effectively convey the "story" of your research. We explore various data storytelling techniques and introduce you to the tools available to visualize your data...

In this 1 hr masterclass, Dr. Henry Lydecker and Dr. Gordon McDonald from the University of Sydney's Sydney Informatics Hub discuss:

• What ChatGPT is,
• A breif history of how we got here,
• Some ideas on how you can use it to accelerate your research
• Some pitfalls to beware of
• Some...

Learn about Sydney University's Ronin Research Cloud Computing platform as a gateway to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Sydney Informatics Hub is a Core Research Facility at The University of Sydney, enabling excellence in research....

Slides available here.

Presented by Dr. Henry Lydecker and Dr. Gordon McDonald of the Sydney Informatics Hub, on the 30th November 2023, as part of CSIRO's National AI Month.

Everyone is using ChatGPT these...

This site is designed as a companion to Griffith Library’s Research Data Capture workshops. It can also be treated as a standalone, self-paced tutorial for learning to use REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases.

This workshop is for researchers at all career stages who want to understand the uses and the building blocks of computational thinking. This skill is useful for all kinds of problem solving, whether in real life or in computing.

The workshop will not teach computer programming per se. Instead...

This online self-paced workshop teaches advanced data wrangling skills including combining datasets, geolocating data, and “what if” exploration using OpenRefine.

Learn basic data cleaning techniques in this self-paced online workshop using open data from data.qld.gov.au and open source tool OpenRefine openrefine.org. Learn techniques to prepare messy tabular data for comupational analysis. Of most relevance to HASS disciplines, working with textual data...

The idea that you can duplicate an experiment and get the same conclusion is the basis for all scientific discoveries. Reproducible research is data analysis that starts with the raw data and offers a transparent workflow to arrive at the same results and conclusions. However not all studies are...

Nowadays, more information created than our audience could possibly analyse on their own! A study by Stanford professor Chip Heath found that during the recall of speeches, 63% of people remember stories and how they made them feel, but only 5% remember a single statistic. So, you should convert...