Events

Organize Your Data: Files and Spreadsheets

Data organization refers to classifying and organizing data sets to make them more useful. Once you create, gather, or start manipulating data and files, they can quickly become disorganized. To […]

Data Documentation: Writing Better READMEs

To ensure that you understand your own data and to enable others to find, use and properly cite your data, it helps to create README files with ‘documentation’ or ‘metadata’ about the datasets you create. This session will explore the critical role documentation plays in data management and how you can ensure good documentation throughout your research.

Don’t Leave Yet! Research Data Offboarding

When employees leave, they take their skills and institutional knowledge with them. It is important to record essential informative information related to projects and datasets to ensure the success of future […]

Where Should I Put My Data? Understanding Data Storage at HMS

TMEC 328

As research grows increasingly more complex, arrangements for data storage and transmission of research data require continuous review and modification. Data storage encompasses not only the specific location where data will be kept and managed, but also aspects of data privacy, data security, data organization, and eventual sharing or reuse. During this short training seminar, […]