A curated collection of campus computing and data learning resources
Discover a variety of educational materials, learning assets and training resources for non-credit bearing courses developed by UCSB campus units to support your research lifecycle journey and leverage your computing skills. These resources encompass workshops, templates, tutorials, and presentations, providing practical guidance and examples. If you’d like to suggest a new learning resource, please contact us rds@library.ucsb.edu.
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Dependency Management 101
Have you ever felt trapped in the maze of packages and library dependencies for your R or Python projects? Join us for a webinar to unravel the 'Dependency Hell' problem and provide practical strategies to tackle this issue while making your research more reproducible.
Date: 2024
Responsible Data Management and Ethical Sharing in Context
Presentation for faculty and graduate students from the Anthropology Department at UCSB as part of the Data Ethics Seminar (Feb. 2024).
Date: 2024
Data De-identification in Practice
This workshop covered key definitions, recommendations, and techniques to implement data de-identification/anonymization.
Date: 2023
Handling Sensitive Data in a Sensible Way
A presentation with interactive activities to explore data sensitivity and the spectrum of human subjects' privacy in the Social Sciences. Scenarios and approaches to secure subjects' rights to anonymization and protection while keeping research data ethics, shareability, and reusability principles in mind.
Date: 2022
Intro to Text Data Mining for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Presentation given during the Research Data Services Workshop Series (May 2022).