Dealing with Data
Recent Submissions
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International collaborations using linked administrative data: Lessons from the MARIC study
(2020-01-15)Introduction: The Mortality After Release from Incarceration Consortium (MARIC) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of researchers, clinicians and decision-makers representing 29 cohorts of adults from 11 countries with ... -
The grant is dead, long live the data
(2020-01-15)Open research, data sharing and data re-use have become a priority for publicly- and charity-funded research. Efficient data management naturally requires computational resources that assist in data description, preservation ... -
eDataShield: Running an analysis of combined data when the individual records cannot be combined
(2020-01-15)In social or epidemiological research comparable data are often collected by agencies in different settings, e.g. in different countries or by different organisations. Disclosure concerns may prevent the agencies releasing ... -
Bringing researchers to data: computing skills training with Edinburgh Carpentries
(2020-01-15)Data availability is essential Researchers also need to find and use the data They need the right knowledge and skills How can we empower researchers to use data well? Ask researchers what they need – SBS Computing ... -
Dealing with data on peace and conflict: Experiences and lessons learned
(2020-01-15)Researching conflict and peace has never been as driven by large-N data as it is now, nor has it ever before seen such abundance of data and data-production methods. However, the analytical conundrums in the discipline ... -
Restoring Gig Workers to Power: The Collective Potential of Personal Data Portability
(2020-01-15)Gig workers in the United Kingdom currently work without basic employment protections. As such, they assume not only all expenses associated with their work, but also the risks of this work, while lacking access to ... -
Integrated secure web application to deliver centralised management of research samples, histology services and imaging data
(2020-01-15)Within the Centre for Reproductive Health, the histology team provides a valuable service to underpin and support research within the Little France campus as part of the SuRF (Small University Research Facilities) service. ... -
Dealing vis Data
(2020-01-15)It's exciting times to work with data: more and more data are becoming available; more people are getting trained in analysis; better analysis methods provide us with more and better information about our world. With this ... -
Using data to improve outcomes for children
(2020-01-15)This new partnership between UNICEF, the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Government presents some unique opportunities and challenges for a variety of reasons. This talk will take you through the story so far in ... -
Building the Knowledge Graph for UK Health Data Science
(2020-01-15)Extracting patient phenotypes from routinely collected health data (such as Electronic Health Records) requires translating clinically-sound phenotype definitions into queries/computations executable on the underlying data ... -
“Data Something”: Assessing Tools, Services and Barriers for Research Data Collaboration at the University of Edinburgh
(2020-01-15)Results from a small-scale study carried out by Dr Tamar Israeli, with support from the Research Data Support team, to gain a better understanding of the barriers and difficulties that prevent researchers from using ... -
DataVault Poster
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)The University of Edinburgh identified a gap for preservation of large research data sets that do not need active preservation at ingest as the majority of the content will not be retained beyond the initial retention ... -
Open.Ed Open Science
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)Open.Ed Open Science By Lorna M. Campbell and Charlie Farley, OER Service, Learning Teaching and Web. This poster will introduce the University of Edinburgh’s OER Service and highlight a number of ways that the service ... -
Facilitating Digital Research: A Collaborative Approach
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)An introduction to the Digital Research Service which has been established to provide a link between researchers and the University's suite of research data tools and services. It will ensure that researchers get the most ... -
Beyond counting sheep: a review of open data for zooarchaeological quantitative analysis
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)Zooarchaeological research analyses faunal remains to explore the relationship between animal husbandry and cultural and environmental change. To further this research agenda, quantitative methods in all fields of archaeology ... -
WikiWicca: Teaching data literacy with the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft and enabling Open Science and Open Scholarship with Wikidata
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)“A common critique of data science classes is that examples are static and student group work is embedded in an ‘artificial’ and ‘academic’ context. We look at how we can make teaching data science classes more relevant ... -
Experiences of open science & software
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)Open source image analysis software plays a crucial role in biological research. For more than 20 years biologists have relied upon ImageJ to analyze microscopy data, and an ecosystem of open bioimage analysis tools ... -
Edinburgh University: The Internet of Things (IoT) Research & Innovation Service
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)The Internet of Things (IoT) can be defined as a network of dedicated physical objects that contain embedded technology to sense or interact with their internal state or external environment, connect and exchange data. ... -
Stories from the open science "revolution”: how (some)scientists talk about openness
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)Scientific openness is both very old and very new. For centuries, the communal sharing of findings has been valued, even if not practised, in the cultural sphere of academic science. But as we know, in recent decades new ... -
Data Sharing in Clinical Trials – Practical guidance on anonymizing trial datasets
(University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-23)There is an increasing demand by non-commercial funders that trialists should provide access to trial data once the primary analysis is completed. This has to take into account concerns about identifying individual trial ...
