Digital Scholarship and Research Data Workshops (Jan – Mar 2023)

Date & Time
2023/01/17 to 2023/03/13

Welcome to join our face-to-face or online workshops and seminars on digital tools and research data management skills organized for CUHK community:

Title Date & Time Venue Registration
Understanding Research Data Management

Research data management refers to the collection, analysis, archive, sharing, and reuse of research data. This workshop will introduce the principles in managing data, the practice of managing and depositing research data. It will also emphasize how sharing and reuse of research data influences your research impact.

17 Jan 2023 (Tue)
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library Register
A Quick Glance of Online Text Analysing Tools

This online workshop will introduce the concept of text analysis and a few examples of text analysis tools. An online text analysing tool – Voyant Tools (http://www.voyant-tools.org/) will be demonstrated to give handy results of textual materials, no matter they are in text file or online.

31 Jan 2023 (Tue)
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Online Register
Effective Use of The CUHK Research Data Repository

The CUHK Research Data Repository is the University’s research data repository. It aims to facilitate CUHK researchers to deposit, publish, and curate their research data outputs and for the worldwide to discover, access, and reuse the data. This workshop will introduce the features of the CUHK Research Data Repository and the effective methods for better data self-management, including publishing and sharing data in the Repository, and depositing data for peer review.

16 Feb 2023 (Thu)
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library Register
Online Register
Visualising Network Relationships with Gephi

Gephi is a free software for visualisation and exploration of graphs and networks. This workshop will demonstrate the use of the software in turning your data into network graphs to discover hidden message.

Remarks:
Participants can install Gephi 0.9.7 (https://gephi.org/) and related plugins in their device.

24 Feb 2023 (Fri)
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Online Register
Research Data in the Big Data Era

In the big data era, data become a necessity for research. They are not only confined to an excel table, but also in many other forms. This workshop will introduce what data are, the roles of research data in the data life cycle, and what constitutes big data. It will also present the basic concepts of data science and data analytics.

1 Mar 2023 (Wed)
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Online Register
Python for Beginners (3 sessions)
Invited speaker: Dr. WONG Kwong Cheong, Senior Lecturer, Data Science and Policy Studies Programme, CUHK

Content TBC

8-10 Mar 2022 (Wed-Fri)
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library Register
Introduction to ArcGIS and QGIS for Digital Scholarship Projects

The use of GIS software is effective in showcasing spatial-temporal relationships in research analysis. This workshop will demonstrate the basic use of ArcGIS Pro and QGIS for spatial data display and perform simple spatial analysis with hands-on exercise.

Remarks:
Both ArcGIS Pro and QGIS is available for use at the workstations in DSLab. For home practice:

13 Mar 2023 (Mon)
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library Register

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese, but English will be used if users require.
Enquiries:
 Email to dslab@lib.cuhk.edu.hk

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