MANTRA: Free, online course on how to manage digital data by Sarah Dister.
From the post:
Research Data MANTRA is a free, online course with guidelines on how to manage the data you collect throughout your research. The course is particularly appropriate for those who work or are planning to work with digital data.
Once you have finalized the course, you will:
- Be aware of the risk of data loss and data protection requirements.
- Know how to store and transport your data safely and securely (backup and encryption).
- Have experience in using data in software packages such as R, SPSS, NVivo, or ArcGIS.
- Recognise the importance of good research data management practice in your own context.
- Be able to devise a research data management plan and apply it throughout the projects life.
- Be able to organise and document your data efficiently during the course of your project.
- Understand the benefits of sharing data and how to do it legally and ethically.
Data management may not be as sexy as “big data” but without it, there would be no “big data” to make some of us sexy. 😉