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Life Sciences Workshop: Glossary

Key Points

Data Management: Introduction
  • Good data organization is the foundation of any research project

Data Management: File-naming and folder structures
  • Basic data management ideas can improve efficiency and reduce risk

Data Management: Meta-data
  • Files and folders with meta-data are far more useable than without

Data Management: Raw Data
  • The term ‘raw data’ means something specific in the world of data analysis. Without it, you can’t go back to the start of an analysis

Data Management: Data Management Planning
  • Projects that are expected to generate a large amount of data, and/or complex data, may benefit from such a plan

Spreadsheets: Introduction
  • Spreadsheets can be extremely useful, but they can also cause chaos

Spreadsheets: Guiding Principles
  • A number of simple concepts can increase the future usability of data

R introduction: Introduction
  • Coding isn’t always the answer, but it’s hard to justify not using it for anything large-scale and/or important

R introduction: Tidy data
  • Tidy data makes future analysis very straightforward, especially in coding environments

R introduction: R and RStudio
  • RStudio is the software used for coding in R

R introduction: R fundamentals
  • Base R features and techniques

R introduction: Data Manipulation and Plotting
  • Analysis code is built line-by-line

R introduction: Beyond Base R
  • R can be extended in thousands of different ways

Statistics in R
  • You can do anything, statistics-wise, in R

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