Datapoints: the RDS blog

Fall Center for Open Science Workshop

This fall the Center for Open Science will be on campus to provide a workshop on reproducibility in quantitative research. Below you will find more details regarding the event, be sure to RSVP to secure your …

Tool: Overleaf & Authorea

Information adapted from Overleaf and Authorea documentation. What are Overleaf and Authorea? Overleaf and Authorea are both web-based, real-time collaborative writing and publishing platforms. Both platforms allow for editing in both a rich text editor or …

Tool: Bulk Rename Utility

Information adapted from Bulk Rename Utility. What is Bulk Rename Utility? Much like the name sounds, Bulk Rename Utility is a tool for file and folder renaming. The tool has a GUI interface and includes …

Tool: OpenRefine

Information adapted from OpenRefine’s documentation wiki. What is OpenRefine? OpenRefine, previously known as Google Refine, is an open source, web based data cleaning and transformation tool. OpenRefine allows you to import and clean large datasets …

May 2016 Link Roundup

Brianna Marshall The newly created Digital Curation Network will determine how to effectively implement, assess, and sustain a shared staffing model for providing data curation services. Researchers share solutions for collaborative data sharing in outbreak …

Brief Thoughts on R as a Beginner

In this series, we’ll cover different aspects of the R programming language. This second post is my experience as a beginner programmer without a sciences or statistical background. This article is what I think might be helpful …