Women who code

About this Event:

Where can tech tools take your research? Do you have a lot of data to manage and are struggling with cut/paste in EXCEL? Do you aspire to create beautiful visualisations of your data? Come along to a workshop hosted by WISPP and Research Platforms Services from The University of Melbourne to get a taste of tech tools and learn how they can transform your work. 5 experts will give 5 minute blitz talks on Matlab, Python, 3D-printing, LaTex and D3. We will delve a little deeper into coding with R to show the utility of this tool and tempt to you sign up for our Women Who Code R workshop held at the VCCC on 21st and 23rd of August.

What can you do with these tools? - - handle big data - use code to analyse/display/manage data – print equipment for your experiments and bypass expensive companies - be smart with your documents - display data interactively. Research Platforms services provides full training to master all these tools free of charge and you will have the opportunity to sign up and/or talk to the experts after the session from 11.30am over Morning Tea

Important note about this Event: This event is open to all staff and PhD students of all genders.

A little bit about Research Platforms Services.....

We are researchers, training researchers! We get you! and would like to embrace you into our Community. Please feel free to swing by our new space called "Co - Lab", located in Room G07 of Old Quad, for a cup of tea and a chat. You are welcome anytime and we would love to see you there!

Research Platforms provides, builds and maintains ICT infrastructure for researchers, in particular cloud compute infrastructure and data storage infrastructure. Enabling data-driven research and the effective use of IT is at the centre of everything we do. We service more than 3,000 researchers from all disciplines across Parkville, within Victoria, and nationally.We work closely with key research support units including Faculty IT teams, the Melbourne eResearch Group, the Library, and other Infrastructure Services departments.

As well as providing underlying infrastructure services, we also work with researchers to provide a range of training, engagement and community building activities aimed at both maximising usage of the facilities, and maximising the value researchers get from them. By building community infrastructure in this way, we connect researchers with each other, with the supplied infrastructure, and with related infrastructure and services such as NCI, Pawsey, VLSCI, etc.