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Digital Skills for Study

This guide includes links and resources to help students build their digital skills for effective study. It is underpinned by the University's Digital Capabilities Framework. Your recommendations of additional resources are welcome.

Work with data

Find, clean, analyse and cite data

This 20 minute training module from the University of Queensland walks you through gathering data (either using your own collection tools or from sources of existing data), to tools for cleaning data and understanding how to analyse and display your data.

Document your research data

Develop your skills in documenting research data to make your quantitative research transparent and reproducible. This 30 minute training module from the University of Queensland covers organisation of data folders, mapping changes, data processing and data analysis.

Infographics

Learn how to tell the story of your data visually in this step-by-step project from the University of Notre Dame.

("Remix Projects: Infographic" by University of Notre Dame MIT license)

Create a research poster

Communicate your data with an effective research poster, built on the tips and tricks from this step-by-step guide from the University of Notre Dame.

("Remix Projects: Research Poster" by University of Notre Dame MIT Licence)

Create an interactive timeline

Tell the story with images, embedded content, multimedia and data in an interactive timeline. Learn how with this quick project from the University of Notre Dame. 

("Remix :Interactive timeline" by Notre Dame University MIT Licence)

Get started with NVivo

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis application that allows you to collect, organise, analyse and visualise unstructured or semi-structured data and this guide from La Trobe University will get you started using it for your data. 

("NVivo 12 for Windows" by University of La Trobe Library)

Use Stata

Stata software helps you analyse, manage and express data. UTAS students and staff can download Stata and find help and support information on the UTAS Software and Utilities page.