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ResBaz: Promoting Digital Literacy for Modern Research

Join Prof. Andrew Rohl at Research Bazaar (ResBaz) for hands-on learning in software skills. Emerging as a prominent event supported by volunteer scientists, ResBaz fosters community building and enriching cross-disciplinary engagement. Participants gain essential computing skills in Unix shell, Git, GitHub, Python, and R, elevating their research productivity. Discover how ResBaz cultivates an excellent product from the apparent chaos.

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ResBaz: Promoting Digital Literacy for Modern Research

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  1. ResBaza worldwide festival promoting the digital literacy emerging at the center of modern research Prof Andrew Rohl Curtin Institute for Computation

  2. Research Bazaar? • Cathedral • Monolithic • Built to a grand plan • Small group of leaders • Bazaar • Many participants with no prerequisites • No central control • From this apparent chaos, an excellent product can emerge

  3. Software Carpentry • Not for profit activity since 1998 • Teach researchers in science, engineering, medicine and other disciplines basic computing skills to make them more productive • (Volunteer) Scientists teaching scientists • Two days of hands-on learning • Unix shell ⇒ automate repetitive tasks • Gitand GitHub ⇒ track and share work • Python or R ⇒ build modular

  4. What’s Missing? • Students report they really enjoy the experience • Usually recognise they learnt something useful to their research • But… • Find it a daunting task to implement in their research • Find they need help after the workshop • Need to become part of a community

  5. ResBaz • In 2015, University of Melbourne ran the first ResBaz conference • Held in Melbourne but got substantial funding from ARCS and Nectar to support intrastate attendees • 150 attendees from 40 different institutions in ANZ • Based on Software Carpentry • Ran additional coursework • Natural Language Toolkit • Social Media for Research • Introduction to 3D Printing

  6. Community Building Activities • Research tools poster session • Structured informal sessions (in a big tent!) • ECR advice through guest key-stories • Examples of cross-disciplinary engagement and community support • Networking with other attendees • Some attendees even camped on the grounds • Early morning yoga

  7. 2016 Sites 120 80 100 80 200 80 80

  8. Perth ResBaz 2016 • Held at Murdoch University • 80 attendees from all 5 WA Unis • In reconfigurable teaching space • Enabled two streams (R and python) • Ran activities with whole group • Additional coursework • Social Media for Researchers D3.js • LaTeXNvivo • Research tools poster session • Star-gazing!

  9. Anonymous Feedback • Everyone is talking, no stress, great vibe, lots of networking, great! • The helpfulness of all the tolerant tutors and colleagues • Really enjoyed my time learning all the tools especially R. Thank you for making Perth ResBaz happen • Liked I could always refer back to website if there was something I could not follow • Examples are a great way to understand programming • Challenges really helped cement understanding • Helpers are a great help, especially Matt • Great ratios of tutors to students • Really helpful for beginners • Awesome!! Hope to attend an ‘advanced’ conference

  10. Suggested improvements • Levels of students too different. Too slow for some and too fast for others • Make a week long to cover more examples • Show more diagrams of what code is trying to achieve

  11. ResBaz 2017 • First week of February (30 Jan – 5 Feb) • Perth site will be at Curtin University

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