Past Events

  • 2020 Aug 19

    Online Short-Seminar: What's in a README?

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online - Zoom

    To ensure that you understand your own data and to enable others to find, use and properly cite your data, it helps to create README files with ‘documentation’ or ‘metadata’ about the datasets you create.

    This session will explore the critical role documentation plays in data management and how you can ensure good documentation throughout your research.

    Learning Objectives

    • Define common types of documentation
    • Understand why documenting your research is important...
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  • 2020 Aug 13

    Online Short-Seminar: How to Name a File

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online - Zoom

    File naming, when done in a well-organized fashion, can contribute to project documentation, workflow organization, and sharing. Establishing naming conventions for your files and using them consistently will ensure maximum access to your data and records.

    This seminar will review how file naming conventions will save you time by keeping your work organized and understandable.

    Learning Objectives

    • Understand why naming conventions are essential for data management
    • ...
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  • 2020 Aug 07

    Online Short-Seminar: Organize Your Files

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online - Zoom

    Data organization refers to the method of classifying and organizing data sets to make them more useful. Once you create, gather, or start manipulating data and files, they can quickly become disorganized. To save time and prevent errors later on, you and your team should decide how you will structure folders and organize your files.

    This seminar will review best practices for when it comes to organizing you research project, data, and files effectively.

    Learning Objectives

    • Understand why...
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  • 2020 Jul 30

    Online Short-Seminar: What is a Data Management Plan?

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online - Zoom

    Many key granting organizations, like NSF, NIH, NEH and more, now require submitters to include a Data Management Plan (DMP) as part of their application. In short, these plans outline the best practices in data management that you will apply throughout the course of your grant. By creating a data management plan for your data at the beginning of the project, you save time and effort later on.

    This session will provide an overview of the components of typical data management plans. 

    Learning Objectives

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  • 2020 Jul 22

    Online Short-Seminar: Let's Talk Data

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online - Zoom

    Data is a collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations or just descriptions of things. But data comes in many types, formats and sizes. Understanding what data you will be collecting or working with in a project is important for planning for the management of that data throughout a project.

    This seminar will explore data types and help you think about what you need to manage your unique data.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn about different data types
    • ...
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  • 2020 Jul 14

    Online Short-Seminar: Data Management Spelling Bee

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online - Zoom

    To create reliable and more accurate data, a good understanding of data management terms is important. Get started with data management by understanding the resources, concepts, services, and tools involved throughout the research lifecycle.

    This seminar will review key data management terms and jargon used in the field. Learn new terms and ace the RDM Spelling Bee!

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn data management terminology and jargon
    • Explore concepts and tools for...
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  • 2020 Jul 06

    Online Short-Seminar: What is Data Management?

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online - Zoom

    Research Data Management (RDM) is essential for responsible research and planning should begin early. Your well-organized and documented data will meet funding agency requirements, be preserved, discoverable and reproducible.

    This seminar will review what RDM is, how it applies to your research, and who to contact for assistance.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn about research data management
    • Understand why data management is important
    • Explore how data management applies to...
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  • 2020 May 26

    Online Short-Seminar: Tidy Data is Good Data

    3:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Countway ONLINE

    Turn messy data into tidy data! Much of your time will be spent in this ‘data wrangling’ stage. It’s not the most fun, but it’s necessary and food data organization is the foundation of data analysis. Learn the rules for a 'tidy dataset' in order to clean and prepare your data with examples and tools.

    This virtual session will teach you how think about data organization and some practices for more effective data wrangling. As a note, we will not discuss analysis or visualisation

    Learning Objectives

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  • 2020 May 21

    Introduction to Dataverse

    2:30pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Online via Zoom

    Come learn about the Harvard Dataverse for data sharing and preservation. You will have an opportunity to discuss your research project and data sharing needs, including:

    • The purpose of research data sharing
    • How to organize research data for sharing
    • Options for sharing deidentified or sensitive data
    • Data analysis and visualization tools provided by Harvard Dataverse
    • Dataset and file level DOIs and data citations
    • How to manage a team project on Harvard Dataverse, and...
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  • 2020 May 20

    Online Short-Seminar: Version Control Basics

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Countway ONLINE

    Final_v2_rev3_final_FINAL.docx got you down? Version tracking, or version control, is the management of changes to any file or document. Version control is like a savings program for your project. Implementing a file versioning strategy at the beginning of your research project will help to avoid confusion amongst collaborators and avoid lost time and effort trying to recover the "right" version of a file.

    This virtual session will review a few ways for tracking different versions of a file, focusing on using git for version control.

    ...

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