ResCom Introduction : Survey Tools & Spreadsheet with Yuandra
Hello readers ! My name is Yuandra and I’ve just joined the Research Bazaar team as a Research Community Coordinator within Research Platform Services.
Finishing up my first week in as ResCom in @ResPlat ! Have so much things lined up to help researchers in their research :)
— Yuandra Ismiraldi (@iniandra) July 31, 2015After getting a Bachelor and Master degree in Informatics Engineering with Software Engineering focus, I’ve worked in ICT industries and startups for several years focusing on mobile technologies. Following my work in the ICT field, I got introduced to the field of ICT for Development and Open Data, fell in love with it, and ended up collaborating with various international organisations, NGOs, and government institutions in helping them to use technology and open data to better engage the people, enhance service delivery, and raise transparency.
This year I’ve decided to go back to university and currently pursuing a Master in Development Studies degree in the University of Melbourne. I’m focusing on how government and NGOs can leverage technology and data to help development in a country - it can be as simple as using your phone to help save bananas
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At ResBaz I’m going to be running training on survey tools and spreadsheet, or in more literal terms: helping you get your data, clean it up, put it to a nice spreadsheet, and analyse it.
To do that, I will use tools. While other trainings related to this might focus on going to the deep (and interesting!) world of programming, I will focus on using various tools that enable researchers (that’s you!) to do data collection and spreadsheet wrangling without any (or maybe a little) programming. Some tools include: Google Forms - allowing you to deploy web based forms to almost the entire internet community and easily hook up the data for analysis and visualisation, Kobo Toolbox - enabling you to collect data in remote places where there’s no internet, and Open Refine - helping you clean all those 10K+ rows of mistyped data.
Best of all? The tools are all free to use ! This means you can allocate your precious research budget out of survey and spreadsheet tools to other important things :)
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The training is still in the early stage of development but there is a lot of opportunity for you to engage with the community and join the discussion! If you have any feedback and suggestions regarding the training curriculum or any tools you want to be included feel free to give me a shout on twitter @iniandra or send me an email on yismiraldi [ at ] student.unimelb.edu.au
Looking forward to hearing from you all :)
