Want to learn more about how to effectively manage your research data? The following workshops this spring will cover topics related to data organization, description, preservation, analysis and more.
Data Organization 101: Directory Structure and File Naming Conventions
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., online
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In this workshop, we'll cover some best practices for keeping your data files organized from the very beginning of a research project, including creating a directory structure for your project and naming conventions for files and folders.
Data Organization 101: Organizing Data in Spreadsheets
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., online
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Do you work with data in spreadsheets? In this workshop, we'll cover best practices for organizing tabular data in spreadsheets according to tidy data principles and avoiding common errors.
Creating README-style Metadata
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., online
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This session will provide an introduction to creating README-style metadata and best practices for describing datasets to better enable scientific data sharing and reuse
Creating a Data Dictionary
Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., online
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A data dictionary, often also called as a codebook, helps other researchers--including, potentially, your future self--understand the structure, contents, variables and values in your dataset. We'll cover the importance of data dictionaries for reproducible research and best practices for creating a data dictionary for your research data.
Data Analysis and Visualization in R
Wednesday - Thursday, March 19 - 20, 8:30 - 4:30 p.m., Zimmerman Library
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Instructors from HSLIC will be partnering with University Libraries to help present a two-day Data Carpentry workshop on Data Analysis and Visualization in R. The lessons assume no prior knowledge of R or RStudio and no programming experience and are open to all academic disciplines.
Selecting a Data Repository Using the NNLM Data Repository Finder and Re3Data
Monday, April 14, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., online
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In this session, we'll review the basics of selecting and searching data repositories and demo how to use the online NNLM Data Repository Finder and Re3data.
Data Deidentification Using NLM-Scrubber
Wednesday, May 14, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
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In this webinar we will review the basics of data deidentification and demonstrate NLM-Scrubber, a free deidentification tool developed by the National Library of Medicine to produce HIPAA-compliant deidentified health data.