A monthly series of infographics on research data
Published by the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) department, the Data Literacy Series (DLS) are visually-compelling one-page handouts that break down complex and important data-related topics. DLS complement the RDS's instructional efforts and mission to promote data education and research data management practices. The handouts are distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. If you’d like to suggest a topic for an upcoming issue, please submit your feedback to rds@library.ucsb.edu.
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The NIH 2023 Policy At A Glance
The new NIH's Data Management and Sharing (DM&S) Policy goes into effect for grants submitted on or after January 25, 2023.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Policy, NIH, Data Sharing, Funding Agencies, Mandates
DATE: 12-2022
Compressing Files
While working with large data files, you may need to reduce their size to make them more convenient to store, transmit, and download. Let's understand the bit-rate reduction process and its types.
PDF - ALTTAGS: File Compression, File Decompression, Storage, File Size
DATE: 11-2022
Research Data Scares
To celebrate the scariest month of the year, we have compiled six eerie short data tales from the TKFDM Network.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Stories, Data Management
DATE: 10-2022
Our Data Services
Are you working on a research project or seeking to improve your data skills? The UCSB Library departments Research Data Services (RDS) and the Data, Research, Exploration, Access, and Methods (DREAM) Lab have many resources available to you.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Services, Data Management
DATE: 09-2022
Handling Missing Data
Real-world datasets often contain missing values, a problem not always avoidable, even in well-designed research. Missing data should be handled carefully; otherwise, they may skew your analysis and compromise your results.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Quality Control, Missing Data, Null Values
DATE: 08-2022
Cloud Services at UCSB
Cloud computing encompasses on-demand network-based computational resources and services such as servers, storage systems, databases, and productivity and analytical tools.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Cloud Computing, Cloud Services
DATE: 06-2022
Data Backup
To protect yourself against data loss we suggest you backup your data following the 3-2-1 rule.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Storage, Data Backup, Loss Prevention, Data Recovery
DATE: 06-2022
Data Management Planning Made Easy (DMPTool)
This document helps researchers strategize and outline plans for data generation, organization, preservation, and sharing during and after the research project.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Management, DMPTool, Funder Mandates
DATE: 05-2022
Meet Dryad
Dryad is a data repository solution supported by the UC system, which promotes data discoverability, reusability, and citability.
PDF - ALTTAGS: Data Repository, Data Archiving, Dryad, Data Publishing
DATE: 05-2022
Minding Text Data Mining
Text Data Mining (TDM) is a research process for deriving high-quality information based on insights and patterns from text corpora.
PDF - ALT