LibGuides: Data Management for Wits: Data Management tools : software and repositories

Open Science Framework
what Open Science Framework does is provide a supportive framework for creating reproducible science. Wits Library is an Open Science framework Ambassador. We provide training and links

Above all else, the reason we recommend Open Science Framework is due to its extensive interoperability with other program and data tools. They do what they say they do and they continually add new software.

It's particularly powerful that it has JASP plugin.This is an open source statistics software that is considerably easier than SPSS, STATA OR R.

Data Preparation and Archiving

Importance of Data Sharing and Archiving

Archives and domain repositories that preserve and disseminate social and behavioral data perform a critical service to the scholarly community and to society at large, ensuring that these culturally significant materials are accessible in perpetuity. The success of the archiving endeavor, however, ultimately depends on researchers’ willingness to deposit their data and documentation for others to use.Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving.

Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
ICPSR data advance scientific knowledge by making it possible for researchers around the world to conduct secondary analyses.ICPSR supports the social sciences by sharing data and methods with the research community,allowing for replication, verification, and extension of original findings, and making sure this is possible over time.Archiving data with ICPSR ensures the long-term preservation of data,protecting it from obsolescence,loss,or irreversible damage.Another advantage of archiving data with ICPSR is that our trained staff are available to provide user support.

Why privacy matters when you have absolutely nothing to hide

Figshare in South Africa

Figshare
Figshare is a test implementation in various South African university including wits. If you want to test your data on fig-share , you get a t-shirt. !

WE LOVE REDCAP, if you have clinical data look no further

Redcap Africa : health sciences only Survey monkey but way way better.Redcap is one of few dedicated open source data management software that is sufficient for very sensitive health data. Its open source but it hosted and supported by Bioinformatics.
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Wits University and Research Entity Staff, IN WITS HEALTH SCIENCES as well as Wits health sciences students, qualify for a full REDCap account, but are required to complete an email verification step using a Wits/Wits Health Consortium organizational email address
Redcap registration form REDCap accounts are free of charge for any staff or students of the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences. If you would like to request an account please fill in the registration form.
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Sorry JUST health scicences right now
Redcap slides check out h3abionet.org at the same time if you want to known about bioinformatics

ZONODO

zenodo
What zenodo does very well is version control . Dataset can have hundred of subsets and versions . Zonodo also links well to GITHUB . If you are doing software of any kind , this is a good choice

Data Analysis Software

Below is a list of available software,to help you analyze,manage,and visualize data.Contact your Data Services Librarian for assistance.

Gapminder Gapminder offers a web-service displaying development statistics for all countries and many sub-national regions. Gapminder world uses "Google Motion Charts" to power its downloadable graphics.
R R is open source statistical analysis and visualization software.
Stata Stata software provides data analysis, management, and graphics.

Using Excel for Analysing Survey Questionnaires Guide published by the University of Wisconsin.