Link Roundup October 2019

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In this series, members of the RDS team share links to research data-related stories, resources, and news that caught their eye each month. Feel free to share your favorite stories with us on Twitter @UWMadRschSvcs!

Cameron Cook

UW Madison’s Information Technology Office has kindly generated 3 Tips to Manage Google Drive. These are designed to help you manage your “personal” and UW Madison G Suite accounts.

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and the Office of Cybersecurity will be hosting a series of informational events throughout the month.

Clare Michaud

In “Managing 100 Digital Humanities Projects: Digital Scholarship & Archiving in King’s Digital Lab,” the authors outline the process of managing digital humanities projects at King’s College London and stress the importance of partnerships between libraries, IT, and researchers in the creation of successful and sustainable digital projects.

Kent Emerson

In their Annual Report, “Cultivating Princeton’s Data Landscape”, The Center for Digital Humanities @Princeton reflects on their 2018-2019 “Year of Data”. Throughout the year, the CDH hosted a keynote address by Safia Noble, workshops for students and faculty, and served as a hub for connecting researchers, teachers, and resources.

Research Bazaar Call for Art Submissions

Art has an important role to play in helping the public make sense of complex data in new and exciting ways. Able to see the patterns in the data, artists and data scientists alike, translate information into visual and aesthetic forms that increase awareness and make complicated issues easier to understand. The planning committee for UW-Madison’s Data Science Research Bazaar seeks submissions for artwork influenced by data science or created by data scientists for display. We welcome submissions from both campus members and the public, and encourage submitters to think broadly on the intersections between data science and art.

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The Data Science Research Bazaar Seeks Submissions

Cross-posted from the Data Science Hub

The Data Science Hub is excited to invite you to participate in the inaugural Data Science Research Bazaar by submitting your ideas to present!

UW-Madison’s Data Science Research Bazaar is a practical, two-day, hands-on, unconference-style event for all members of the UW-Madison campus community who are interested in data science, from expert methodologists to novice learners just getting their feet wet with data science tools. Presenters from all disciplines, all UW-Madison affiliated individuals, and individuals from the surrounding Madison area are encouraged to apply. Help make the Research Bazaar a successful exchange of ideas and skills by participating and submitting your idea to present. The Research Bazaar is happening at the Discovery Building on January 24-25, 2020.

Proposals are due on November 15, 2019, unless otherwise noted in a specific call.

The Research Bazaar is seeking proposals for the following presentation formats and workshops:

The Research Bazaar is also seeking proposals for the following networking opportunities:

If you have any questions, please send an email to contact@datascience.wisc.edu.

 

HIPAA: What Does It Mean for Medical Research Data?

Written by Jarrod Irwin

Researchers across disciplines care about the security and privacy of their data–especially those with data containing personally identifiable information, as even limited combinations of certain data points can lead to the identification of a subject. Researchers in the health sciences have an especially strong need to protect it. Patient health data has special legal restrictions on its use and handling.

Here’s a quick look at the most important U.S. law affecting patient health data, as well as some best practices for preserving data privacy when working with laboratory tests and other types of medical research data.

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