File Formats and Transformation

Course Objectives

This course introduces the concepts of data file formatting, compression, normalisation, and other kinds of data transformation and why they are useful. After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand why research data formatting and transformation is important.
• Know how to make decisions about data file formatting, compression, normalisation and other transformations.
• Use the information featured in the course to improve your research data management practice.
  

Research Data MANTRA [online course, https://mantra.edina.ac.uk/] by the Research Data Service, University of Edinburgh is licensed under a
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