Subject Guides: Library webinar recordings: Researcher skills development

Webinar recordings

Data Organization in Spreadsheets (recorded 31 January 2024) This webinar is for any researcher or HDR who is about to commence a research project where data will be in a spreadsheet. Good data organization is the foundation of any research project. Most researchers have data in spreadsheets, so it’s the place that many research projects start. We organize data in spreadsheets in the ways that we as humans want to work with the data, but computers require that data be organized in particular ways. In order to use tools that make computation more efficient, such as programming languages like R or Python, we need to structure our data the way that computers need the data. Since this is where most research projects start, this is where we want to start too! In this lesson, you will learn: Good data entry practices - formatting data tables in spreadsheets How to avoid common formatting mistakes Approaches for handling dates in spreadsheets Basic quality control and data manipulation in spreadsheets Exporting data from spreadsheets In this lesson, however, you will NOT learn about data analysis with spreadsheets. Much of your time as a researcher will be spent in the initial ‘data wrangling’ stage, where you need to organize the data to perform a proper analysis later. It’s not the most fun, but it is necessary. In this lesson you will learn how to think about data organization and some practices for more effective data wrangling. With this approach you can better format current data and plan new data collection so less data wrangling is needed.
OpenRefine for Data (recorded 7 February 2024) This webinar is suitable for any researcher or HDR who has collected research data in spreadsheets and is preparing to analyse the data. Before you can analyze data, you need to clean it. Data cleaning identifies errors and corrects formatting to create consistent data. This step must be taken with extreme care and attention because without clean data the results of analysis may be false and non-reproducible. OpenRefine is a powerful free and open-source tool for working with messy tabular data: cleaning it and transforming it from one format into another without changing your raw data files This hands-on workshop will teach you to use OpenRefine to clean and format data effectively and automatically track any changes that you make. Many people comment that this tool saves them literally months of work trying to make these edits by hand. Examples of OpenRefine functions are: Making the data machine readable by removing whitespace Finding and correcting spelling mistakes by clustering and counting names in a column Prior to this workshop, you will need to install OpenRefine. OpenRefine is a free, open-source Java application that runs locally in your browser.
EndNote Desktop: Getting Started (recorded 14 February 2024)
Introduction to Academic Publishing (recorded 15 February 2024)
Getting the most out of EndNote (recorded 21 February 2024) Learn about advanced aspects of EndNote including new features with the latest release of EndNote 21.
Keeping current and setting up alerts (recorded 6 March 2024)
Research Data Management Planning (recorded 7 March, 2024) This 60 minute webinar is suitable for researchers or HDRs who are starting a new research project generating research data. This webinar will present an overview of the considerations that should be taken into account when dealing with research data before, during and after the active research phase to ensure that the data will be secure, useable and policy compliant. This session will cover Data Management Plans Policy Data storage and security Sensitive data including Indigenous data principles Documentation and metadata Tidy data Data retention in a repository including licences
Indigenous Knowledge in Research: Intellectual Property and ethical use
Dr Virginia Marshall and Professor Emma Lee discuss issues around the use of Indigenous Knowledge in Research.
Introduction to Covidence (recorded 28 March 2024)
Understanding the PRISMA flowchart (recorded 5 April 2024)
Guidance for scoping, systematic and other review types (recorded 19 April 2024)
Demonstrating research impact for Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) (Recorded 24 April 2024)

Webinars for Researchers 2023

Webinars for Researchers 2022

Data Organisation in spreadsheets - Slides

Exercise files for Data Organisation in Spreadsheets

Webinars for Researchers 2021

Searching the literature for SoLT (recorded 28 January 2021)
Publishing and Dissemination in SoLT (recorded 18 February 2021)
Incites for research benchmarking and analytics (recorded 25 March 2021)
Research data management A: Your research data & you (recorded 22 April 2021)
Data Management Planning (recorded 20 May 2021)
This short webinar steps you through the considerations for planning your research data management process in the Federation University context.
Social Media for Researchers (recorded 1 July 2021) Make more of an impact with your research by using social media. Unfortunately researchers need to be their own brand ambassadors and promote themselves and their research. This short session will discuss why use social media, posting and platforms.
Incites (recorded 6 September 2021)
Secure storage for your completed research data - Federation.figshare (recorded 23 Sep 2021)
OpenRefine for Social Scientists (recorded 14 Oct 2021) A part of the data workflow is preparing the data for analysis. Some of this involves data cleaning, where errors in the data are identifed and corrected or formatting made consistent. This step must be taken with the same care and attention to reproducibility as the analysis. OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful free and open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it and transforming it from one format into another. This lesson will teach you to use OpenRefine to effectively clean and format data and automatically track any changes that you make. Many people comment that this tool saves them literally months of work trying to make these edits by hand.
Data Organisation in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists - Recording
Webinar Recording

Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists
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Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists
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Promoting your research: Research sharing sites, benefits and pitfalls - Recording
Webinar recording :Explore the advantages and disadvantages of using research sharing sites and find out how to use them safely and legally.
Journal Impact Metrics (recorded 29 November 2021)

Researcher skills webinars 2020

Love Data Week 2020 webinar series

Research Training and Development Calendar

Research Training and Development Calendar

Library support for research

The Library contributes to research achievement at Federation University by

facilitating access to high quality information resources relevant to your research
providing services and programs which increase accessibility and citation of your research

A Liaison Librarian can:

introduce you to Library services and resources which support research
help you select appropriate databases and search them effectively
provide advice on how you can save and reuse your searches
show you how to keep up to date using automated alerts
help you to manage your references with EndNote
highlight the tools available to measure research impact

Please contact your Liaison Librarian if you would like to discuss how we can support your research needs.

Library guides: Research method and impact

For further information on topics covered in our Researcher Skills webinars, please consult the following library guides: