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Love Data Week (Feb. 12-16)

Love Data Week is here again! Love Data Week is an international social media campaign to raise awareness and build community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services.

This year the theme for Love Data Week is Data Stories, with a focus on four topics:

  • Stories about data
  • Telling stories with data
  • Connected conversations across different data communities
  • We are data: seeing the people behind the data

Since last year, we have some new data stories at Duke Libraries. The Duke Digital Repository now contains nearly 30 data sets that Duke researchers have shared for preservation and reuse. There are 23 Duke-affiliated projects in the Open Science Framework, a free web app developed by the Center for Open Science that facilitates good project and data management practices. And our Research Data Management team has continued to offer consultation and instruction services to a variety of researchers on campus.

We invite you to join the data story by attending data related events coming up at Duke during Love Data Week:

  • Tuesday, February 13:

    Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar: Data, data everywhere … Making sense of observations and models across scales 
  • Wednesday, February 14:

    Introduction to the Open Science Framework*: Learn how this free, open source tool can help you manage and share your research data.

    Story Maps with ArcGIS Online: Learn how to tell your data story with an interactive map that integrates other media (photos, text, videos) and shows changes over space and time.

    Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop at the Social Science Research Institute: Learn how to transform interview scripts into analyzable data and other foundational skills in qualitative data analysis. 
  • Thursday, February 15:

    Data Dialogue at the Information Initiative at Duke: Design intuition, ethnography, and data science 
  • Friday, February 16:

    Visualization Friday Forum: Invisible Visualization: Making data visualizations accessible to the blind and other people with disabilities

*In honor of Love Data Week, chocolate will be offered at this event.

Keep an eye on additional workshops coming up for the rest of the spring semester!

Contact us at askdata@duke.edu for help with your data story, and follow the conversation at #lovedata18

All promotional Love Data 2018 materials used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Citation: Nurnberger, A., Coates, H. L., Condon, P., Koshoffer, A. E., Doty, J., Zilinski, L., … Foster, E. D. (2017). Love Data Week [image files]. Retrieved from https://osf.io/r8tht

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Announcing Tidyverse workshops for Winter 2018

Coming this winter the Data & Visualization Services Department will once again host a workshop series on the R programming language. Our spring offering is modeled on our well received R we having fun yet‽ (Rfun) fall workshop series. The four-part series will introduce R as a language for modern data manipulation by highlighting a set of tidyverse packages that enable functional data science. We will approach R using the free RStudio IDE, an intent to make reproducible literate code, and a bias towards the tidyverse. We believe this open tool-set provides a context that enables and reinforces reproducible workflows, analysis, and reporting.

This six-part series will introduce R as a language for modern data manipulation by highlighting a set of tidyverse packages that enable functional data science.

January Line-up

Title Date Registration Past Workshop
Intro to R Jan 19
1 – 3pm		 register Resources
R Markdown
with Dr. Çetinkaya-Rundel		 Jan 23
9am		 register
Shiny
with Dr. Çetinkaya-Rundel		 Jan 25
9am		 register
Mapping with R Jan 25
1-3pm		 register Resources
Reproducibility & Git Jan 29
1-3pm		 register Resources
Visualizationg with ggplot2 Feb 1
9:30-11:30am		 register Resources

An official announcement with links to registration is forthcoming. Feel free to subscribe to the Rfun or DVS-Announce lists. Or look to the DVS Workshop page for official registration links as soon as they are available.

Workshop Arrangement

This workshop series is intended to be iterative and recursive. We recommend starting with the Introduction to R. Proceed through the remaining three workshops in any order of interest.

Recordings and Past Workshops

We presented a similar version of this workshop series last fall and recorded each session whenever possible. You can stream past workshops and engage with the shareable data sets at your-own-pace (see the Past Workshop resources links, above.) Alternatively, all the past workshop resource links are presented in one listicle: Rfun recap.

Data Curation, Data Management

Highlights from Expanding our Research Data Management Program

Since the launch of our expanded research data management (RDM) program in January, the Research Data Management Team in DVS has been busy defining and implementing our suite of services. Our “Lifecycle Services” are designed to assist scholars at all stages of their research project from the planning phase to the final curation and disposition of their data in an archive or repository. Our service model centers on four key areas: data management planning, data workflow design, data and documentation review, and data repository support. Over the past nine months, we have  worked with Duke researchers across disciplines to provide these services, allowing us to see their value in action. Below we present some examples of how we have supported researchers within our four support areas.

Data Management Planning

With increasing data management plan requirements Data Management Planningas well as growing  expectations that funding agencies will more strictly enforce and evaluate these plans, researchers are seeking assistance ensuring their plans comply with funder requirements. Through in-person consultations and online review through the DMPTool, we have helped researchers enhance their DMPs for a variety of funding agencies including the NSF Sociology Directorate, the Department of Energy, and the NSF Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Program.

Data Workflow Design

As research teams begin a project there are a variety Data Workflow Designof organizational and workflow decisions that need to be made from selecting appropriate tools to implementing storage and backup strategies (to name a few). Over the past 6 months, we have had the opportunity to help a multi-institutional Duke Marine Lab Behavioral Response Study (BRS) implement their project workflow using the Open Science Framework (OSF). We have worked with project staff to think through the organization of materials, provided training on the use of the tool, and strategized on storage and backup options.

Data and Documentation Review

During a project, researchers make decisions about how to format, Data and Documentation Reviewdescribe, and structure their data for sharing and preservation. Questions may also arise surrounding how to ethically share human subjects data and navigate intellectual property or copyright issues. In conversations with researchers, we have provided suggestions for what formats are best for portability and preservation, discussed their documentation and metadata plans, and helped resolve intellectual property questions for secondary data.

Data Repository Support

At the end of a project, researchers may be required Data Repository Supportor choose to deposit their data in an archive or repository. We have advised faculty and students on repository options based on their discipline, data type, and repository features. One option available to the Duke community is the Duke Digital Repository. Over the past nine months, we have assisted with the curation of a variety of datasets deposited within the DDR, many of which underlie journal publications.

This year Duke news articles have featured two research studies with datasets archived within the DDR, one describing a new cervical cancer screening device and another presenting cutting-edge research on a potential new state of matter. The accessibility of both Asiedu et al.’s screening device data and Charbonneau and Yaida’s glass study data enhances the overall transparency and reproducibility of these studies.

Our experiences thus far have enabled us to better understand the diversity of researchers’ needs and allowed us to continue to hone and expand our knowledge base of data management best practices, tools, and resources. We are excited to continue to work with and learn from researchers here at Duke!

Data Curation, Data Management

Open Science Framework @ Duke

Center for Open ScienceThe Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free, open source project management tool developed and maintained by the Center for Open Science (COS). OSF offers many features that can help scholars manage their workflow and outputs throughout the research lifecycle. From collaborating effectively, to managing data, code, and protocols in a centralized location, to sharing project materials with the broader research community, the OSF provides tools that support openness, research integrity, and reproducibility. Some of the key functionalities of the OSF include:

  • Integrations with third-party tools that researchers already use (i.e., Box, Google Drive, GitHub, Mendeley, etc.)
  • Hierarchical organizational structures
  • Unlimited native OSF storage*
  • Built-in version control
  • Granular privacy and permission controls
  • Activity log that tracks all project changes
  • Built-in collaborative wiki and commenting pane
  • Analytics for public projects
  • Persistent, citable identifiers for projects, components, and files along with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) available for public OSF projects
  • And more!

Duke University is a partner institution with OSF, meaning  you can sign into the OSF using your NetID and affiliate your projects with Duke. Visit the Duke OSF page to see some Duke research projects and outputs from our community.

Duke University Libraries has also partnered with COS to host a workshop this fall entitled “Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Quantitative Research.” This workshop will teach participants how they can increase the reproducibility of their work and will include hands-on exercises using the OSF.

Workshop Details
Date: October 3, 2017
Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Register: http://duke.libcal.com/event/3433537

If you are interested in affiliating an existing OSF project, want to learn more about how the OSF can support your workflow, or would like a demonstration of the OSF, please contact askdata@duke.edu.

*Individual file size limit of 5 GB. Users can upload larger files by connecting third party add-ons to their OSF projects.

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Fall Data and Visualization Workshops

2017 Data and Visualization Workshops

Visualize, manage, and map your data in our Fall 2017 Workshop Series.  Our workshops are designed for researchers who are new to data driven research as well as those looking to expand skills with new methods and tools. With workshops exploring data visualization, digital mapping, data management, R, and Stata, the series offers a wide range of different data tools and techniques. This fall, we are extending our partnership with the Graduate School and offering several workshops in our data management series for RCR credit (please see course descriptions for further details).

Everyone is welcome at Duke Libraries workshops.  We hope to see you this fall!

Workshop Series by Theme

Data Management

09-13-2017 – Data Management Fundamentals
09-18-2017 – Reproducibility: Data Management, Git, & RStudio 
09-26-2017 – Writing a Data Management Plan
10-03-2017 – Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Quantitative Research
10-18-2017 – Finding a Home for Your Data: An Introduction to Archives & Repositories
10-24-2017 – Consent, Data Sharing, and Data Reuse 
11-07-2017 – Research Collaboration Strategies & Tools 
11-09-2017 – Tidy Data Visualization with Python

Data Visualization

09-12-2017 – Introduction to Effective Data Visualization 
09-14-2017 – Easy Interactive Charts and Maps with Tableau 
09-20-2017 – Data Visualization with Excel
09-25-2017 – Visualization in R using ggplot2 
09-29-2017 – Adobe Illustrator to Enhance Charts and Graphs
10-13-2017 – Visualizing Qualitative Data
10-17-2017 – Designing Infographics in PowerPoint
11-09-2017 – Tidy Data Visualization with Python

Digital Mapping

09-12-2017 – Intro to ArcGIS Desktop
09-27-2017 – Intro to QGIS 
10-02-2017 – Mapping with R 
10-16-2017 – Cloud Mapping Applications 
10-24-2017 – Intro to ArcGIS Pro

Python

11-09-2017 – Tidy Data Visualization with Python

R Workshops

09-11-2017 – Intro to R: Data Transformations, Analysis, and Data Structures  
09-18-2017 – Reproducibility: Data Management, Git, & RStudio 
09-25-2017 – Visualization in R using ggplot2 
10-02-2017 – Mapping with R 
10-17-2017 – Intro to R: Data Transformations, Analysis, and Data Structures
10-19-2017 – Developing Interactive Websites with R and Shiny 

Stata

09-20-2017 – Introduction to Stata
10-19-2017 – Introduction to Stata 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Curation, Data Management

Love Your Data Week (Feb. 13-17)

In cooperation with the Triangle Research Library Network, Duke Libraries will be participating in Love Your Data Week on February 13-17, 2017. Love Your Data Week is an international event to help researchers take better care of their data. The campaign focuses on raising awareness and building community around data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse.

The theme for Love Your Data Week 2017 is data quality, with a related message for each day.

  • Monday: Defining Data Quality
  • Tuesday: Documenting, Describing, and Defining
  • Wednesday: Good Data Examples
  • Thursday: Finding the Right Data
  • Friday: Rescuing Unloved Data

Throughout the week, Data and Visualization Services will be contributing to the conversation on Twitter (@duke_data). We will also host the following local programming related to the daily themes:

In honor of Love Your Data Week chocolates will be provided at these workshops!

The new Research Data Management staff at the Duke Libraries are available to help researchers care for their data through consultations, support services, and instruction.  We can assist with writing data management plans that comply with funder policies, advise on data management best practices, and facilitate the ingest of data into repositories. To learn more about general data management best practices, see our newly updated RDM guide. 

Contact us at askdata@duke.edu to find out how we can help you love your data! 

Get involved in Love Your Data Week by following the conversation at #LYD17, #loveyourdata, and #trlndata.

All promotional Love Your Data 2017 materials used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Citation: Bass, M., Neeser, A., Atwood, T., and Coates, H. (2017). Love Your Data Week Promotional Materials. [image files]. Retrieved from https://osf.io/r8tht/files/

Data Curation, Data Management

New Data Management Services @ Duke

Data ManagementDuke Libraries are happy to announce a new set of research data management services designed to help researchers secure grant funding, increase research impact, and preserve valuable data. Building on the recommendations of the Digital Research Faculty Working Group and the Duke Digital Research Data Services and Support report, Data and Visualization Services have added two new research data management consultants who are available to work with researchers across the university and medical center on a broad range of data management concerns from data creation to data curation.

Interested in learning more about data management?

Our New Data Management Consultants

sophialh2Sophia Lafferty-Hess attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received a Master of Science in Information Science and Master of Public Administration. Prior to coming to Duke, Sophia worked at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill within the Data Archive as a Research Data Manager. In this position, Sophia provided consultations to researchers on data management best practices, curated research data to support long-term preservation and reuse, and provided training and instruction on data management policies, strategies, and tools.

While at Odum, Sophia also helped lead the development of a data curation and verification service for journals to help enforce data sharing and replication policies, which included verifying that data meet quality standards for reuse and that the data and code can properly reproduce the analytic results presented in the article. Sophia’s current research interests include the impact of journal data sharing policies on data availability and the development of data curation workflows.

jen2Jen Darragh comes to us from Johns Hopkins University where she served for the past seven years as the Data Services and Sociology Librarian, and Hopkins Population Center Restricted Projects Coordinator.  In this position, Jen  developed the libraries’ Restricted Data Room and designed the secure data enclave spaces and staff support for the Johns Hopkins Population Center.

Jen received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Westminster College (PA) and her Master of Library and Information Sciences degree from the University of Pittsburgh.  She has been involved with socio-behavioral research data throughout her career.  Jen is particularly interested in the development of centralized, controlled data access for sensitive human subjects’ data (subject to HIPAA or FERPA requirements) to facilitate broader, yet more secure sharing of existing research data as a means to produce new, cutting-edge research.

 

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Duke Libraries and SSRI welcome Mara Sedlins!

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On behalf of Duke Libraries and the Social Science Research Institute, I am happy to welcome Mara Sedlins to Duke.  As the library and SSRI work to develop a rich set of data management, analysis, and archiving strategies for Duke researchers, Mara’s postdoctoral position provides a unique opportunity to work closely with researchers across campus to improve both training and workflows for data curation at Duke.  – Joel Herndon, Head of Data and Visualization Services, Duke Libraries  

2016-08-25 11.06.17 HDRI am excited to join the Data and Visualization Services team this fall as a postdoctoral fellow in data curation for the social sciences (sponsored by CLIR and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation). For the next two years, I will be working with Duke Libraries and the Social Science Research Institute to develop best practices for managing a variety of research data in the social sciences.

My research background is in social and personality psychology. I received my PhD at the University of Washington, where I worked to develop and validate a new measure of automatic social categorization – to what extent do people, automatically and without conscious awareness, sort faces into socially constructed categories like gender and race? The measure has been used in studies examining beliefs about human genetic variation and the racial labels people assign to multiracial celebrities like President Barack Obama.

While in Seattle, I was also involved in several projects at Microsoft Research assessing computer-supported cooperative work technologies, focusing on people’s preferences for different types of avatar representations, compared to video or audio-only conferencing. I also have experience working with data from a study of risk factors for intimate partner violence, managing a database of donors and volunteers for a historical archive, and organizing thousands of high-resolution images for a large-scale digital comic art restoration project.

I look forward to applying the insights gained from working on a diverse array of data-intensive projects to the problem of developing and promoting best practices for data management throughout the research lifecycle.  I am particularly interested in questions such as:

  • How can researchers write actionable data management plans that improve the quality of their research?
  • What strategies can be used to organize and document data files during a project so that it’s easy to find and understand them later?
  • What steps need to be taken so that data can be discovered and re-used effectively by other researchers?

These are just a few of the questions that are central to the rapidly evolving field of data curation for the sciences and beyond.

 

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Fall 2016 DVS Workshop Series

GenericWorkshops-01Data and Visualization Services is happy to announce its Fall 2016 Workshop Series. Learn new ways of enhancing your research with a wide range of data driven research methods, data tools, and data sources.

Can’t attend a session?  We record and share most of our workshops online.  We are also happy to consult on any of the topics above in person.  We look forward to seeing you in the workshops, in the library, or online!

Data Sources
 
Data Cleaning and Analysis
 
Data Analysis
Introduction to Stata (Two sessions: Sep 21, Oct 18)
 
Mapping and GIS
Introduction to ArcGIS (Two sessions: Sep 14, Oct 13)
ArcGIS Online (Oct 17)
 
Data Visualization

Visualizing Qualitative Data (Oct 19)
Visualizing Basic Survey Data in Tableau – Likert Scales (Nov 10)

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Data Fest 2016 Workshop Series

Duke Libraries are happy to welcome the 2016 ASA DataFest to the Edge on April 1-3rd.  As part of  DataFest 2016, the Edge is hosting five DatadataFestFest related workshops designed to help teams and others interested in data driven research expand their skills.   All workshops will meet in the Edge Workshop Room (1st Floor Bostock Library).  Laptops are required for all workshops.

We wish all the teams success in the competition and hope to see you in the next few weeks!

 

DataFest Workshop Series

Data Analysis with Python
Tuesday, March 22
6:00-9:00 PM
This will be a hands-on class focused on performing data analysis with Python. We’ll help participants set-up their Jupyter Notebook development environment, cover the basic functions for reading and manipulating data, show examples of common statistical models and useful packages and show some of the python visualization tools.

Introduction to R
Wednesday March 23
6:00-8:00 PM
Introduction to R as a statistical programming language. This session will introduce the basics of R syntax, getting data into R, various data types and classes, etc. The session assumes no or little background in R.

Data Munging with R and dplyr
Monday, March 28
6:00-8:00 PM
This session will demonstrate tools for data manipulation and cleaning of data in R. Majority of the session will use the dplyr and tidyr packages. Some background in R is recommended. If you are not familiar with R, make sure to first attend the first R workshop in the series.

Data visualization with R, ggplot2, and shiny
Wednesday, March 30
6:00-8:00 PM
This session will demonstrate tools for static and interactive data visualization in R using ggplot2 and shiny packages. Some background in R is recommended. If you are not familiar with R, make sure to first attend the first R workshop in the series.

EDA and Interactive Predictive Modeling with JMP
Thursday, March 31
4:00-6:00 PM
JMP® Statistical Discovery Software is dynamic, visual and interactive desktop software for Windows and Mac. In this hands-on workshop we see tools for exploring, visualizing and preparing data in JMP. We’ll also learn how to fit a variety of predictive models, including multiple regression, logistic regression, classification and regression trees, and neural networks. A six month license of JMP will be provided.