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Throughout your academic and professional career, your work will involve the collection, reuse, and sharing of different types of data. Data, much like any other product of your research, requires good management practices to ensure the quality of your work at the end of a project. Building good data management habits early on will ensure that your work is more accurate, reproducible by yourself and others, and more impactful for future research.
This micro-course focuses on research data—or the information collected, created, aggregated, during research activities that underlies your research findings. However, the practices covered are broadly applicable to the organization and management of other files or data. The course will provide an introduction and brief overview of research data management essentials, covering the reasons to invest time and effort into good data management and introducing best practices that you can start building into your research process immediately.
Upon completion of this micro-course, you will be able to: