Help us make your data journey research better

What we provide through the RDS Data Strategy needs to be driven by the demand from users.
This means identifying the things that are stopping you from doing data-driven innovation and helping to overcome those challenges. We’re working on how to make the process for accessing data simpler and will update on this at the RDS user forum meeting on 16th November.

What data do you need?
We have an RDS data catalogue that contains data already available. We have an established data strategy for RDS that identifies five core themes where bring data together, a set of National Core datasets, and a set of value added data products.

The next User Forum will be held on Tuesday, November 16 between 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm.

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* 1. What are the TOP THREE areas where you would like access to data that RDS currently don’t have available? (Select three that apply)

A register of Scottish based/operating businesses

Property ownership and transactions

Land use register

“Universal” public services – GP data

“Universal” public services – HMRC/DWP data on workforce

Scotland-wide household surveys

Specific dataset(s) on vulnerable people and families

Specific dataset(s) on Skills, work or business

Specific dataset(s) on health and care

Specific dataset(s) on environment

QCOVID research dataset

Creating new research resources (e.g. cohorts) from data we have on current catalogue)

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Please provide details of datasets you require

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* 3. Why are these datasets a priority?

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* 4. Why would RDS bringing this data together help? (tick all that apply)

Can’t currently access this data

Can’t currently link this data with other datasets

Other (please specify)

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* 5. What principle analytical software do you use for data analysis? (select as many options as relevant)

MS Access

Anaconda 3

ArcGIS

Disco

MS Excel

Git

Haskell

Jupyter Notebook

Kubernetes (particularly for containers on GPUs)

Mathematica

MatLab

MicroDicom

ML-WIN

OxMetrics6

Power BI

Python

PyTorch (particularly for GPU use)

Q-GIS

R for windows

R GUI

R Studio

R Studio Server

SAS / SAS Enterprise

SPSS

Spyder

STATA

Tensorflow (particularly for GPU use)

X2Go (to allow access to GPU)

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* 6. If software you are looking for is not currently available in your safe setting, what do you do

It means I couldn't do the research

Look to use an alternative that is available

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Which sector do you work in?

A University

The Public Sector

The Third Sector

Private sector

Other

Other (please specify)

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* 8. Tell us something about yourself - which field of research do you work in?

Join us at our next User Forum and share your views

Earlier this year Research Data Scotland hosted its first User Forum when more than 150 guests from academia, education and health agencies, local authorities, charities, data managers and providers attended an online conference to learn of the latest developments at Research Data Scotland.
The next User Forum will be held on Tuesday, November 16 between 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm and you can register today to attend this online event to hear the latest updates from RDS Chief Executive, Prof Roger Halliday and share your views on our service to researchers.

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