ALA Labs
ALA Labs provides resources and articles from the Atlas of Living Australia's Science and Decision Support team. On the website, you can find:
- Posts: Code, articles, analyses and visualisations that will hopefully help you in your own work
- Research: Highlighted summaries of scientific...
Keywords: Ecology, R, Python, Rstats, Biodiversity data, Open science, Reproducibility, Coding, Data cleaning, Data visualisation, Species Distribution Modelling, Beginner R coding
ALA Labs
https://labs.ala.org.au/
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ala-labs
ALA Labs provides resources and articles from the Atlas of Living Australia's Science and Decision Support team. On the website, you can find:
- Posts: Code, articles, analyses and visualisations that will hopefully help you in your own work
- Research: Highlighted summaries of scientific research that has used data from the Atlas of Living Australia
- Software: R & Python packages that the Science & Decision Support team manage
- Books: Long-form resources with best-practice data wrangling and visualisation
- Gallery: Showcasing external work that uses tools from ALA Labs
Atlas of Living Australia support@ala.org.au
Ecology, R, Python, Rstats, Biodiversity data, Open science, Reproducibility, Coding, Data cleaning, Data visualisation, Species Distribution Modelling, Beginner R coding
WORKSHOP: R: fundamental skills for biologists
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘R: fundamental skills for biologists’. This workshop took place over four, three-hour sessions on 1, 8, 15 and 22 June 2022.
Event description
Biologists need data analysis skills to be able to...
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Analysis, Statistics, R software, RStudio, Data visualisation
WORKSHOP: R: fundamental skills for biologists
https://zenodo.org/records/6766951
https://dresa.org.au/materials/workshop-r-fundamental-skills-for-biologists-81aa00db-63ad-4962-a7ac-b885bf9f676b
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘R: fundamental skills for biologists’. This workshop took place over four, three-hour sessions on 1, 8, 15 and 22 June 2022.
Event description
Biologists need data analysis skills to be able to interpret, visualise and communicate their research results. While Excel can cover some data analysis needs, there is a better choice, particularly for large and complex datasets.
R is a free, open-source software and programming language that enables data exploration, statistical analysis, visualisation and more. The large variety of R packages available for analysing biological data make it a robust and flexible option for data of all shapes and sizes.
Getting started can be a little daunting for those without a background in statistics and programming. In this workshop we will equip you with the foundations for getting the most out of R and RStudio, an interactive way of structuring and keeping track of your work in R. Using biological data from a model of influenza infection, you will learn how to efficiently and reproducibly organise, read, wrangle, analyse, visualise and generate reports from your data in R.
Topics covered in this workshop include:
Spreadsheets, organising data and first steps with R
Manipulating and analysing data with dplyr
Data visualisation
Summarized experiments and getting started with Bioconductor
This workshop is presented by the Australian BioCommons and Saskia Freytag from WEHI with the assistance of a network of facilitators from the national Bioinformatics Training Cooperative.
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
Files and materials included in this record:
Event metadata (PDF): Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.
Index of training materials (PDF): List and description of all materials associated with this event including the name, format, location and a brief description of each file.
Schedule (PDF): A breakdown of the topics and timings for the workshop
Recommended resources (PDF): A list of resources recommended by trainers and participants
Q_and_A(PDF): Archive of questions and their answers from the workshop Slack Channel.
Materials shared elsewhere:
This workshop follows the tutorial ‘Introduction to data analysis with R and Bioconductor’ which is publicly available.
https://saskiafreytag.github.io/biocommons-r-intro/
This is derived from material produced as part of The Carpentries Incubator project
https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/bioc-intro/
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Freytag, Saskia (orcid: 0000-0002-2185-7068)
Barugahare, Adele (orcid: 0000-0002-8976-0094)
Doyle, Maria
Ansell, Brendan (orcid: 0000-0003-0297-897X)
Varshney, Akriti
Bourke, Caitlin (orcid: 0000-0002-4466-6563)
Conradsen, Cara (orcid: 0000-0001-9797-3412)
Jung, Chol-Hee (orcid: 0000-0002-2992-3162)
Sandoval, Claudia
Chandrananda, Dineika (orcid: 0000-0002-8834-9500)
Zhang, Eden (orcid: 0000-0003-0294-3734)
Rosello, Fernando (orcid: 0000-0003-3885-8777)
Iacono, Giulia (orcid: 0000-0002-1527-0754)
Tarasova, Ilariya (orcid: 0000-0002-0895-9385)
Chung, Jessica (orcid: 0000-0002-0627-0955)
Moffet, Joel
Gustafsson, Johan (orcid: 0000-0002-2977-5032)
Ding, Ke
Feher, Kristen
Perlaza-Jimenez, Laura (orcid: 0000-0002-8511-1134)
Crowe, Mark (orcid: 0000-0002-9514-2487)
Ma, Mengyao
Kandhari, Nitika (orcid: 0000-0002-0261-727X)
Williams, Sarah
Nelson, Tiffanie (orcid: 0000-0002-5341-312X)
Schreiber, Veronika (orcid: 0000-0001-6088-7828)
Pinzon Perez, William
Bioinformatics, Analysis, Statistics, R software, RStudio, Data visualisation
NCI training strategy and impact story to address pressing needs from user community
This presentation looks at how NCI provides training opportunities, supporting users to develop their digital skills with the aim of underpinning the integrity of research. NCI's new training strategy is outlined along with how training is evaluated and impact is measured. Through extensive...
Keywords: training impact, evaluation, skills training, training strategy, community, survey design, training material
NCI training strategy and impact story to address pressing needs from user community
https://zenodo.org/records/5739725
https://dresa.org.au/materials/nci-training-strategy-and-impact-story-to-address-pressing-needs-from-user-community-70a328d3-a1e1-45ce-bac0-d8b896db4ca0
This presentation looks at how NCI provides training opportunities, supporting users to develop their digital skills with the aim of underpinning the integrity of research. NCI's new training strategy is outlined along with how training is evaluated and impact is measured. Through extensive internal polling the training team have identified a number of gaps. Based on the gaps an end-to-end learning journey has been created. The presentation also provides an overview of immediate, middle term and community impacts of training at NCI.
You can watch the video on YouTube here:https://youtu.be/LVn5TZFufjI
contact@ardc.edu.au
Wang, Jingbo (orcid: 0000-0002-3594-1893)
training impact, evaluation, skills training, training strategy, community, survey design, training material
Evaluating training at Pawsey: Motivated, confident & "changed"
This presentation outlines the digital reserach skills training evaluation methods used at Pawsey. Using the Kirpatrick Training Evaluation model in designing their training evaluation survey, Pawsey measure learning motivation (How did the participant respond to the training?), improved...
Keywords: training impact, evaluation, behavioual change, survey design, skills training, motivation, confidence, training material
Evaluating training at Pawsey: Motivated, confident & "changed"
https://zenodo.org/records/5739608
https://dresa.org.au/materials/evaluating-training-at-pawsey-motivated-confident-changed-a2435a20-bfa5-457d-afa3-08193a199f24
This presentation outlines the digital reserach skills training evaluation methods used at Pawsey. Using the Kirpatrick Training Evaluation model in designing their training evaluation survey, Pawsey measure learning motivation (How did the participant respond to the training?), improved confidence of the learner (Did participants understand the training?) and were there any behavioual changes (How participants applied their new knowledge in practice?).
You can watch the video of the presentation on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/IOKVrBumEBQ
contact@ardc.edu.au
Backhaus, Ann (orcid: 0000-0002-9023-055X)
training impact, evaluation, behavioual change, survey design, skills training, motivation, confidence, training material
Intersect: Training portfolio
This presentation explores Intersect's training evaluation model. Short term evaluation for immediate satisfaction and value of the training. Long term evaluation methods with a specific survey design to determine behavioural change and impact over time of the training on researchers' workflows,...
Keywords: training impact, evaluation, short-term evaluation, long-term evaluation, behavioural change, survey design, skills training, training material
Intersect: Training portfolio
https://zenodo.org/records/5739603
https://dresa.org.au/materials/intersect-training-portfolio-8c82060d-5eea-4091-af7b-396c9c073dab
This presentation explores Intersect's training evaluation model. Short term evaluation for immediate satisfaction and value of the training. Long term evaluation methods with a specific survey design to determine behavioural change and impact over time of the training on researchers' workflows, use of support services post training and looking for links between digital tools/technologies training and research outputs and grants.
You can watch the full video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/J3tCC-t_eO4
contact@ardc.edu.au
Papaioannou, Anastasios (orcid: 0000-0002-8959-4559)
training impact, evaluation, short-term evaluation, long-term evaluation, behavioural change, survey design, skills training, training material
ARDC Skills Impact and Strategy Community Discussion
The focus of this community event arose from the ARDC SKills Summit 2021, hosted in collaboration with eResearch Australasia Conference. Two key themes identified at the Summit formed the focus of this event: 1) How to convince senior management the value of digital skills training so that they...
Keywords: training impact, evaluation, skills training, resourcing, value proposition, training material
ARDC Skills Impact and Strategy Community Discussion
https://zenodo.org/records/5739422
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-skills-impact-and-strategy-community-discussion-e9d63cee-0d9c-4f8d-9c0f-58afe99b649b
The focus of this community event arose from the ARDC SKills Summit 2021, hosted in collaboration with eResearch Australasia Conference. Two key themes identified at the Summit formed the focus of this event: 1) How to convince senior management the value of digital skills training so that they don't question resourcing 2) Evaluating the long-term impact of digital skills training on researchers’ workflows and outputs.
You can watch the full video presentation on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/iSnE7OBILqs
contact@ardc.edu.au
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
training impact, evaluation, skills training, resourcing, value proposition, training material
Heurist Tutorials
A set of video tutorials with accompanying walkthroughs for building your first Heurist database and website. The first three tutorials show you how to get started in Heurist. The five subsequent tutorials introduce you to the five main menus in the Heurist interface.
Keywords: Heurist, Data management, Data visualisation, Digital Humanities, Databasing, website
Resource type: tutorial
Heurist Tutorials
https://heuristnetwork.org/tutorials
https://dresa.org.au/materials/heurist-tutorials
A set of video tutorials with accompanying walkthroughs for building your first Heurist database and website. The first three tutorials show you how to get started in Heurist. The five subsequent tutorials introduce you to the five main menus in the Heurist interface.
michael.falk@sydney.edu.au
Falk, Michael
Johnson, Ian
Osmakov, Artem
Heurist, Data management, Data visualisation, Digital Humanities, Databasing, website
mbr
phd
ecr
researcher
support