Állatorvostudományi Egyetem

A kurzus leírása

Informatics for zoologist tentative course outline 2023./2024. 1^st semester

Description

The aim of the course to provide essential hard skills for reasonable use of various software that can support a researcher’s work. The course provides three modules: 1) data organization, management and short analyses in Excel and R; 2) creating and managing text documents, reports and presentations in MS Office and other environment such as HTML and LaTeX; 3) Other important IT skills for researchers such as scientific databases, scientometrics and daily management of a computer and files.

Course outline by modules

Module 1 – Data management

1. Excel intro, data in Excel (Broman and Woo 2018. Data organization on spreadsheets)
2. R & Rstudio intro (open data, view data in R)
3. Excel tasks 1. /Rtask 1. (practicals only)
4. Excel tasks 2. /Rtask 2. (practicals only)

Module 2 – Text documents, reports and presentations

1. Essentials for HTML and CSS (ATZS)
2. Short introduction to LaTeX, a cover letter and CV from templates
3. Word part #1 – basics of text editing in MS word (ATZS)
4. Intro to Rmarkdown for text documents
5. Word part #2 – long documents – using styles, table of contents, tables and figures (ATZS)
6. Presentation in PowerPoint (ATZS)

Module 3 –  Other important IT skills for researchers

1. Reference managers (Mendeley, Zotero), scientific databases and essentials for scientometrics (WOS, Scopus, github, publons)
2. Managing files locally (explorer, vs. total commander) and globally (free cloud services for science with pros and cons), Window OS daily management + (best of )hotkeys

Time schedule

Lecture →Monday 13.15 (H2)

Practicals → Monday 14.15 (group #1), (H2)  Tuesday 14.15 (group #2) (N3)

H2, N3: N building III. floor

1. Week1 04.09 – 08.09 – Course overview, introduction to univet IT
2. Week 2 11.09 – 15.09 – Excel intro, data in Excel, data organization on spreadsheets
3. Week 3 18.09 – 22.09 – R & Rstudio intro (open data, view data in R)
4. Week 4 25.09 – 29.09 – Essentials for HTML and CSS (ATZS)
5. Week 5 02.10 – 06.10 – Short introduction to LaTeX, a cover letter and CV from templates
6. Week 6 09.10 – 13.10 – Word part #1 – basics of text editing in MS word (ATZS)
7. Week 7 16.10 – 20.10 – Intro to Rmarkdown for text documents
8. Week 8 23/24.10  – 27.10 – Midterm I. (deadline for CV assignment)
9.  Week 9 30.10 – 03.11 – Word part #2 – long documents – using styles, table of contents, tables and figures (ATZS)
10. Week 10 06.11 – 10.11 – Presentation in PowerPoint (ATZS)
11. Week 11 13.11 – 17.11 – Reference manager (Mendeley, Zotero) + scientific databases and essentials for scientometrics (WOS, Scopus, github, publons)
12. Week 12 20.11 – 24.11 – Managing files locally and globally, Window OS daily management
13. Week 13 27.11 – 01.12 – (not allocated yet due to holidays)
14. Week 14 04.12 – 08.12 – Q&A session – students’ feedback
15. Week 15 11.12 – 15.12 – Midterm II./Test on word, Deadline PowerPoint assignment

[J1]Monday group scheduled for a week later due to national holiday (23/10).