Learning Resources
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.
Interact with our Technology Demo (20 minutes)
Login to DataLENS (15 minutes)
Watch U-BRITE Getting Started — Overview & Tech Demo (12 minutes)
Watch U-BRITE Getting Started: Version Control (10 minutes)
Watch U-BRITE Getting Started: Access Public Data (9 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.
- For newcomers to Jupyter, see https://www.dataquest.io/blog/jupyter-notebook-tutorial/ (1 hour).