Cloud computing data and analysis workflows
Last updated on 2025-05-08 | Edit this page
Estimated time: 47 minutes
Overview
Questions
- What steps would a researcher go through to obtain public data and “put” it on a cloud computer?
- What might a researcher do to work with their data that is on a cloud computer?
- What might a researcher do to export their results from their cloud computer?
Objectives
- Download open data from a public URL using {R code or wget/curl - TBD}
- Use scp to transfer a set of files from a local computer to a remote computer
- Clone a public github repository onto a remote computer
- Run R code to analyze data, within a remote RStudio server session
Moving data around
TODO
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Downloading data
If you wanted to download data sets for 1999-2025 from X open data site, what are your options for doing so?
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Solutions
- Manual download
- API
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TODO
Key Points
- TODO