Overview
Researchers and their teams may be interested in engaging various freely available, online, and in-person training resources that we describe below. These resources are organized by estimated time to help learners with different backgrounds and skills map out a personal training plan.
Less Than 30 Minutes
Browse overview slides (10 minutes):
- See overview slides from U-BRITE 2.0 Launch Day.
Login to DataLENS (15 minutes):
Watch U-BRITE Getting Started – Overview & Tech Demo (12 minutes):
Watch U-BRITE Getting Started: Access Public Data (9 minutes):
Watch U-BRITE Getting Started: Version Control (10 minutes):
2 Hours
Register for i2b2 Training (2 hours)
- Accessing clinical data for research with i2b2 can help investigators determine study feasibility (sample cohort size), identify potential participants for recruitment, perform simple data analyses of de-identified patient data, and explore hypotheses for clinical studies/trials.
- Visit https://www.uab.edu/ccts/research-commons/informatics/trainings/i2b2-training to register.
Follow the i2b2 Query How To (2 hours)
Attend Research Computing’s Monthly HPC Training (1.5 hours)
- Sign up to hpc-announce mailing list to receive training announcements at https://docs.rc.uab.edu/.
- Past topics have included fundamentals training, like “Git basics and parallel programming scripts”, “Migrating data to/from Cheaha”, and “Virtual environments for Python and Anaconda”.
- See videos for selected past topics on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoOS2e699Ge0DND1oy1BJQ.
Learn Cheaha New User Workflows (< 1 Hour)
- For newcomers to Cheaha’s Open OnDemand portal at https://rc.uab.edu, consider the “New User Workflows” tutorial offered by Research Computing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-OPA9I8S8.
- Also, see “Cheaha Getting Started” at https://docs.rc.uab.edu/
Learn Version Control Fundamentals (2+ hours)
- For newcomers to git and version control, consider the Beginner, Getting Started, and Collaborating tutorials offered by Atlassian starting at https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/what-is-version-control.
- For teams interested in selecting an appropriate git workflow, consider the Comparing Workflows tutorial offered by Atlassian at https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows.
- If you prefer video-based learning, consider the Git Essential Training: The Basics course offered by LinkedIn Learning (2h 55m).
- Note this is no-cost to UAB employees, log in with your BlazerID.
Learn Jupyter Notebook Fundamentals (2+ hours)
- For newcomers to Jupyter, see https://www.dataquest.io/blog/jupyter-notebook-tutorial/ (1 hour).
- Skip the Installation section (Jupyter and Anaconda are already part of U-BRITE) and start the Jupyter Notebook Interactive App within the Open OnDemand portal at https://rc.uab.edu.
- If you prefer video-based learning, consider the Introducing Jupyter course offered by LinkedIn Learning (53m).
- Note this is no-cost to UAB employees, log in with your BlazerID.
