Researchers

Introduction to web scraping

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites. Some data that is available on the web is presented in a format that makes it easier to collect and use it, for example in the form of downloadable comma-separated values (CSV) datasets …

Jupyter Notebooks with R & Git

Today we are going to learn the basics of literate programming using Jupyter Notebooks, a popular tool in data science, with the R kernel, so we can run R code in our notebooks. We’ll then take a look at how we use Git and GitHub to keep track of all …

La Terminal de Unix

Software Carpentry lección para la terminal de Unix La terminal de Unix ha existido por más tiempo que la mayoría de sus usuarios. Ha sobrevivido tanto tiempo porque es una herramienta poderosa que permite a las personas hacer cosas complejas con …

lab.js Online research made easy

lab.js is a free, open, online study builder for the behavioral and cognitive sciences. (it works great in the lab, too)

Level up the reproducibility of your data and code! A 2-hour, hands-on workshop

Purpose: To introduce methods and tools in organization, documentation, automation, and dissemination of research that nudge it further along the reproducibility spectrum.OutcomeParticipants feel more confident applying reproducibility methods and …

Licensing your research

Join us for a 30 minute guest webinar by Brandon Butler, Director of Information Policy at the University of Virginia. This webinar will introduce questions to think about when picking a license for your research. You can signal which license you …

Managing a Personal Research Archive

A class on setting up and managing research materials; caring for digital files to enable collaboration, sharing, and re-use; and helpful software/digital tools for organizing personal research files.

Meeting the Requirements of Funders Around Open Science: Open Resources and Processes for Education

Expectations by funders for transparent and reproducible methods are on the rise. This session covers expectations for preregistration, data sharing, and open access results of three key funders of education research including the Institute of …

NIGMS Clearinghouse for Training Modules to Enhance Data Reproducibility

In January 2014, NIH launched a series of initiatives to enhance rigor and reproducibility in research. As a part of this initiative, NIGMS, along with nine other NIH institutes and centers, issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) …

Open Access Directory

The Open Access Directory is an online compendium of factual lists about open access to science and scholarship, maintained by the community at large. It exists as a wiki hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University …