Cloud computing data and analysis workflows

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

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TODO

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Downloading data

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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

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1. Manual download
   
2. API

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TODO

Key Points

• TODO