Data 3101 Mount Allison University
Data Acquisition and Organization
Prereq: MATH 1311; or permission of the Program Advisor. This course will build on MATH 1311 to cover high throughput acquisition and management of data.
The course will use diverse data types and formats to illustrate conceptual challenges across disciplines.
Technical aspects will include evolving approaches to script-based web scraping, file formats and conversions, data mergers and tidying, meta-data organization and capture.
In parallel, the course will cover theoretical and ethical aspects of data curation and access policies, development of best practices for research data management and case studies in secure management of sensitive or private data.
In my experience with github, I have installed many apps from source on Linux (my OS of choice for a while). I have published a bit, but mostly just for backups.