A series of infographics on data-related issues
A monthly series of infographics on research data
The Data Literacy Series (DLS) was officially launched in August 2020. It aims to complement the department's instructional efforts and mission to promote data education and research data management practices. The DLS handouts are distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. If you’d like to suggest a topic for an upcoming issue, please submit your feedback to rds@library.ucsb.edu.
n.1/2020 - Why should I get an ORCID?
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n.2/2020 - Data Citation in a Nutshell
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n.3/2020 - The Spectrum of Human Subjects' Privacy
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n.4/2020 - Persistent Identifiers Explained
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n.5/2020 - Data Deli (RDS Menu)
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n.1/2021 - The Dos and Don'ts of File Naming
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n.2/2021 - UC Love Data Week
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n.3/2021 - README, please!
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n.4/2021 - Be FAIR to your data!
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n.5/2021 - How to choose a Data Repository?
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n.6/2021 - How can research data be reused?
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n.7/2021 - Why do open formats matter?
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n.8/2021 - What should you keep in your project folder?
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n.9/2021 - Take full control of file versions!
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n.10/2021 - Know Your Rights & Use Data Right!
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n. 11/2021 - Championing Code Documentation
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n.12/2021 Open Data Tools
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n.01/2022 CARE Principles
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n.02/2022 Perma.cc
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n.03/2022 Text Data Mining
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n.03/2022 Dryad
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n.05/2022 DMPTool
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n.06/2022 - Data Backup
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n.07/2022 - Cloud Services at UCSB
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n.08/2022 - Handling Missing Data
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n.09/2022 - Our Data Services
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n.10/2022 - Research Data Scares
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n.11/2022 - Compressing Files
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n.12/2022 - NIH 2023 Policy At A Glance
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n.01/2023 - Which Graph Should You Choose?
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n.02/2023 - The Role of Metadata Standards
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n.03/2023 - Ecological Metadata Language
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n.04 & 05/2023 - Data Documentation Initiative
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n.06/2023 - Dublin Core
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n.07/2023 - Roll up your Sleeves for some Data Cleaning
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n.08/2023 - Watch out for Predatory Publishers!
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n.09/2023 - The ABCs of Web APIs
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n.10/2023 - Taming the Dependency Hell
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n.11/2023 - Reproducible Environments with RENV
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If you’d like to suggest a topic for an upcoming issue, please submit your feedback to rds@library.ucsb.edu