The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the landscape of research data analysis. This transformation promises to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and depth of data analysis, changing the way researchers approach their work. In this blog post, we delve into how AI is set to change the future of research data analysis.
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In an era where data is king, statistical analysis has become an essential tool in the arsenal of academics and researchers. It enables the extraction of meaningful insights from complex datasets, guiding decision-making and hypothesis testing across diverse disciplines. In this blog post, we will explore some of the top tools for statistical analysis, each offering unique features and capabilities to support the research community at UNC Charlotte and beyond.
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This post explores the application of the ancient Greek concept of τέχνη (techne) in modern educational technology. τέχνη, traditionally encompassing the realms of ‘art,’ ‘craft,’ or ‘skill,’ offers a unique perspective on the intersection between knowledge and its practical application. This exploration is critical in understanding the role and efficacy of technological tools in teaching, learning, and research within contemporary educational frameworks.
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In an era marked by rapid technological advancements in education, the ancient Greek concept of τέχνη (techne) emerges as a guiding light. This concept, translating to ‘art,’ ‘craft,’ or ‘skill,’ offers profound insights into how we approach technologies in teaching, learning, and research today. This blog post explores the relationship between τέχνη and modern educational technologies, highlighting how this age-old concept can enhance our understanding and use of these tools.
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Availability: University owned computers
Perceptive Content (formerly known as ImageNow) is a document management system used to track and store electronic documents. It uploads, organizes, and stores documents and content. This can include items such as email, electronic files, multimedia, XML and hundreds of other formats in addition to scanned documents.
Availability: UNC Charlotte Canvas
Comparable: Camtasia Studio, Screencast-O-Matic, BB Flashback Pro, Screenflow, Expression Encoder
Kaltura CaptureSpace is a video and screencast presentation tool. Kaltura CaptureSpace is available in UNC Charlotte’s Canvas instance. The tool has the ability to record a multimedia presentation, record screen and voice, record screen and video, record from a webcam, or record audio only. Captions can be added to the video through Canvas’ My Media link. Videos can also be embedded on a Canvas page and streamed from the external Katura server, optimizing playback and saving storage space in the Canvas course.
Interactive quizzes can be added to existing Kaltura videos.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Poll Everywhere is a polling application and student response system. Instructors can engage students in class with real-time interactive questions. The live audience can use mobile devices like phones, tablets, or laptops to participate. Participation is conducted by using a mobile-friendly web page, the Poll Everywhere app, sending text messages, or by using Twitter.
Atlas Ti is a program used for qualitative research or qualitative data analysis. The software is used to uncover and analyze complex phenomena hidden in unstructured data. Users can extract, categorize, and interlink data segments from multiple source documents, audio clips or photos.
Availability: Labs | Download
Comparable: yEd Graph Editor
Gephi is an open-source visualization and exploration software for graphs and networks. The software can be used for exploratory data analysis, link analysis, social network analysis, and biological network analysis. Users can interact with the representation and manipulate the structures, shapes, and colors to reveal patterns. View Gephi’s full features here.
Availability: Download
Fathom software can be used to teach data analysis and statistics and help students understand algebra, precalculus and statistics. Users can represent data in a variety of graphs, bar charts, scatter plots, function plots, and histograms. The software’s data analysis capabilities make it a tool that can be used for the physical and biological sciences, as well as for social science courses.
View the full features list.
Availability: Download
Comparable: NVivo
Studiocode is a desktop software that allows for customized video tagging to identify specific moments useful to a research process. Users can collaborate with colleagues by comparing their analysis with others. Timelines, databases, and transcription text can be used for cross-referencing and analysis to help identify patterns and trends.
Studiocode is available for the Macintosh operating system.
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats.
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Vector graphics is a technology that allows objects to be infinitely scalable to either very large or very tiny sizes without degradation in quality. Often when an image is expanded to a large size the image distorts with rough squares and sharp edges, known as pixels. This is a raster image which is based with a particular size in mind. Vector images are based on geometry and relative location and angles, so its proportions can be scaled in any direction without pixelation or distortion. Illustrator also includes 3-dimensional capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create simple 3D objects.
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.
Photoshop has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, such that the terms “photoshopping” and “photoshop contest” were born. It can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, Lab color space (with capital L), spot color and duotone. Photoshop has vast support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to edit or render text, vector graphics (especially through clipping path), 3D graphics and video. Photoshop’s featureset can be expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design software that helps users create, edit, and support their own websites and web applications. It has applications that provides a visual editor and a code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for Windows and Mac devices.
Dreamweaver is part of Adobe Creative Cloud which is available for all UNCC faculty and staff computers.
Availability: Download
Adobe Gaming SDK is a collection of code samples, frameworks, and learning resources to assist developers create ActionScript games across multiple devices.
Availability: Download for iOS
Adobe Prelude Live Logger CC is used during video production and post-production to log notes and events, and mark good or bad takes in video content. The metadata can be imported and attached to file-based footage in Adobe Prelude CC. The software works on the iOS platform.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe Media Encoder CC is a media processor that integrates with Adobe Premier Pro CC, After Effects CC, and other applications. The application ingests, transcodes, creates proxies, and outputs media in multiple formats.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe PhoneGap Build is a standards-based, open-source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps. Apps can be built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8. Users upload their HTML 5, CSS, and JavaScript assets to the Adobe PhoneGap Build cloud service and it takes care of the compiling work.
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Adobe Story CC Plus allows users to write screenplays and scripts, use scripts to generate schedules and production reports, and collaborate online.