Research Tools and Training
Sydney ResBaz 2018, 3-5 July
Are you an HDR candidate or early career research and want to pick up new software skills for your research?
This year Macquarie University is hosting Sydney ResBaz, a free, 3-day event teaching participants everything from data processing and analysis, computer programming in R and Python, digital humanities, to project management. The workshops on offer will build skills in a particular digital 'tool' based on a research-specific problem.
2018 Training Sessions
| Course | Time | When | Where | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Python (new)* | 9.30am-4.30pm | Wednesday, 11 April 2018 | Library - Training Lab | Eventbrite |
| Using Databases and SQL*^ | 12.30pm-4:30pm | Thursday, 19 April 2018 | Library - Training Lab | Eventbrite |
| Cloud.UNE Classes | 12.30pm-1:00pm | Monday, 30 April - Thursday, 03 May 2018 | Library - Training Lab | Information |
| Version control with Git*^ | 9.30am-12.30pm | Tuesday, 8 May 2018 | Library - Training Lab | Eventbrite |
| Regular Expressions (intro)* | 9.30am-12.30pm | Wednesday, 23 May 2018 | Library - Training Lab | Eventbrite |
| Programming with R (Intro) - Day 1*^ | 9.30am-12.30pm | Wednesday, 20 June 2018 | Library - Training Lab | Eventbrite |
| Programming with R (Intro) - Day 2*^ | 9.30am-12.30pm | Thursday, 21 June 2018 | Library - Training Lab | Eventbrite |
| Advanced R (new)* | 9.30am-4.30pm | Wednesday, 11 July 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Google Fusion Tables* | 9.30am-11.00am | Thursday, 2 August 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Using Databases and SQL*^ | 12.30pm-4:30pm | Wednesday, 8 August 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Programming with MATLAB (new) - Day 1*^ | 9.30am-12.30pm | Wednesday, 5 September 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Programming with MATLAB (new) - Day 2*^ | 9.30am-12.30pm | Thursday, 6 September 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Surveying with Qualtrics* | 9.30am-12.30pm | Wednesday, 10 October 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Excel - Day 1* | 9.30am-12.30pm | Wednesday, 17 October 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Excel - Day 2* | 9.30am-12.30pm | Thursday, 18 October 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Programming with R (Intro) - Day 1*^ | 9.30am-12.30pm | Wednesday, 14 November 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
| Programming with R (Intro) - Day 2*^ | 9.30am-12.30pm | Thursday, 15 November 2018 | Library - Training Lab | TBA - contact ptobias2@une.edu.au to express interest |
ITD also maintains a detailed page of Courses for Researchers (staff sign-in required).
* These courses are delivered by Intersect Australia. They are provided free of charge to UNE staff. For a list of other courses offered, visit Intersect's training page.
^ The material for these courses come from the international consortium, Software Carpentry
Available Software
Presented here is a range of research software available for download on the UNE network, or accessible free online.
| Software | Description | Licensing | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chute (browser based) | Chute is an automated system to find research outputs by UNE authors, and can aid adding them to the institutional repository. | Free (UNE developed) | University Library |
| Fetch (Mac) | FTP client for Mac. | Free licence for educational use, details in Readme | IT Service Desk |
| FileZilla (Win, Mac, Linux) | File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client - software for transferring files between computers. | Free | IT Service Desk |
| Fusion Tables (browser based) | Fusion Tables is an experimental data visualisation web application to gather, visualise, and share data tables. | Free | eResearch Analyst |
| GitLab | A web-based versioning repository for your research projects, data and code. UNE has it's own instance of GitLab to sign in with your UNE credentials. | Free | eResearch Analyst |
| MyResearch (browser based) | My Research is a web application used to view information relating to UNE's research grants and consultancies. | Free | MyResearch Support |
| Nvivo (Win, Mac) | Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) software. Designed for qualitative researchers working with very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required. |
Windows: preconfigured licence Mac: contact IT Service Desk for licence | IT Service Desk |
| OpenRefine (Win/Mac/Linux) | OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data. | Free (open source) | eResearch Analyst |
| R (Win/Mac/Linux) | R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. | Free | IT Service Desk |
| SPSS (Win, Mac) | SPSS is a statistical analysis software package. | UNE site licence (nil cost) | IT Service Desk |
| Qualtrics (web-based) | UNE's online survey tool, powered by Qualtrics | UNE site licence (nil cost) | IT Service Desk |
