Welcome to Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA)

Browsing, discovering and organising digital research events and training resources, collected from Australasian providers.

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Data Manipulation and Visualisation in R at UNE Online

Event

R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio and the Shiny web application framework.

In this workshop, you will learn how to manipulate, explore and get insights...

ARDC Digital Research Skills Strategy Tool

Material

This is a decision tool to help you determine components of a digital research skills strategy.
When you create a skills strategy, you need to work out:

Which people
Need which skills
At what level
Delivered how

This tool helps you:

Create typical user roles that outline groups who need...

Data Capture and Surveys with REDCap at UC Online

Event

Would you like to enable secure and reliable data collection forms and manage online surveys? Would your study benefit from web-based data entry? Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) might be for you.

This course will introduce you to REDCap, a rapidly evolving web tool developed by...

Data Entry, Exploration, & Analysis in SPSS at UC Online

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This hands-on training is designed to familiarize you with the interface and basic data processing functionalities in SPSS. We will examine several “must know” syntax commands that can help streamline data entry and processing. In addition, we will explore how to obtain descriptive statistics in...

Getting started with NVivo for Windows at UC Online

Event

Does your research see you working through unstructured and non-numerical data? With the ability to collect, store and analyse different data types all in the one location makes, it’s easy to see why NVivo is becoming the tool of choice for many researchers.

NVivo allows researchers to...

Learn to Program: R at UC Online

Event

R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language of choice for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio development environment and the Shiny web application framework.

But getting started with R can be...

Submitting a Data Request to Health Data Australia: Documentation for Data Requesters

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This documentation is a supplementary resource for researchers submitting a formal request for access to a dataset listed on the Health Data Australia (HDA) platform. This was developed as part of a work package for Health Studies Australian National Data Asset.

Secondary Use of Clinical Trials Data in Health Research: A Practical Guide

Material

This document presents a theoretical framework for the use of clinical trials and other health data for secondary research purposes, which was derived from research papers, consultation with stakeholders and the research community.  
Four overall scenarios for data reuse were identified; scenario...

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ResBaz Sydney Test Package

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Test package

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Just a test of the package functionality