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Patrick McCann

#lovedataweek: Data Needs Software

As part of Love Data Week 2019, we thought it would be worth taking a brief moment to think about software. Software is not data, but software is essential for working with data – whether that’s creating it, collecting…

Software Carpentry 27-28th November

On 27th and 28th of November the Library will be helping to run a Software Carpentry workshop for research staff and postgraduate research students. The workshop will cover The Unix Shell Version Control with Git…

Software Carpentry

Following the success of the two Software Carpentry workshops we ran last semester, we’ll be running another one on 4th-6th December in the Gateway, covering The Unix Shell Version Control with Git Programming in R…

Research Software Survey Results

There were 29 responses to the Research Software survey run at the end of 2016 – not bad considering it was only sent to about 100 people. Responses were received from the Schools of Biology, Chemistry, Computer…

Research Software Survey

Following the Research Data Management survey during the summer, we would like to try and capture some more information about the development of software for research via a more focused survey of those people at St…

1st conference of Research Software Engineers

Update: Slides from many of the talks are now available via the conference website. Software engineers – twisted sense of humour #rse16 #forgotgitadd pic.twitter.com/XpqqqWLeKJ — Tim Nicholls (@timcnicholls) September…

Research Data Management Survey Results: Software

As previously reported, over the summer we conducted a survey on research data management practices at the University and we’ve been analysing the responses. Included in the survey were a few questions about software…

Research Computing Network Launch

About 30 people from across the University attended the Launch Event for the St Andrews Research Computing Network, hosted by the Library in the Lawrence Levy Studio in the Byre Theatre over lunchtime on 14th June. The…

Research Computing Network Launch

The Library is hosting a launch event for the St Andrews Research Computing Network at the Lawrence Levy Studio in the Byre Theatre 12-2pm on Tuesday 14th June. This follows on from the initial effort to gauge interest…

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