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By Kaitlin Logie, January 2017 What is Data Processing? Many refer to data processing as the “collection and manipulation” of data to produce information that is meaningful. Data processing can involve many important steps: Validation....
By Kaitlin Logie, January 2017 Why is reproducible research important? Reproducibility in research is the only thing that an investigator can guarantee about a study. It is regarded as one of the foundations...
By Kaitlin Logie, December 20th 2016. What is machine learning and what are we doing when we program machines to “learn”? Machine learning is considered a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides the...
By Kaitlin Logie, 17th December 2016 What is High Performance Computing (HPC)? Also known as ‘Super Computing’, HPC is a tool that allows you to use and access some of the country’s most powerful...
By Kaitlin Logie, 20th October 2016. What do you mean by ‘Unix Shell’? Most of you would be very familiar with graphic user interfaces such as ‘explorer’ on Windows (not to be confused with...
The Research Bazaar (ResBaz) is a worldwide festival promoting the digital literacy skills at the center of much modern research. In early February 2017, events will be held at a number of university campuses...
We already started planning ResBaz UoA 2017. This time, you can expect a set of cool training workshops, surprises, social activities and nice food. More info coming soon…
A two day Software Carpentry Workshop with Python was held at the University of Auckland 11-12th July as part of Winter Bootcamp. For myself, it was the first time helping with Software Carpentry training....
