Introduction to Data Acquisition for Beginners

This workshop will give you an beginner introduction regarding the various ways to get data.

You will learn about:

• How to create a web survey using Google Forms
• How to do mobile data collection using Kobo Toolbox
• How to do get data from the internet via search engine and open data portals
• How to get data from PDF using Tabula
• How to do basic web scraping using browser extension, Outwit Hub, and Kimono Desktop.

About us

This is a free training provided by the Research Platforms Services, the University of Melbourne

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.