- AI Assisted Coding in RStudio
In our most popular article, Anthony Evans looks at how large language models like ChatGPT are becoming part of everyday research coding, helping make code easier to write, understand, and debug. And honestly, who wouldn’t welcome that? - UoM UK Biobank Showcase
Interest in the UK Biobank Showcase event was exceptionally high, with this advertisement helping to fill places very quickly. Don’t miss out next time, register early! - Research Applications - getting started
A practical guide to help researchers quickly find the software and support they need to get started, and one that remains just as useful today. - Intro to Docker: an interactive training event
Are you interested in learning about containerisation using Docker? In 2025, the Research Software Engineering team developed and published a two‑and‑a‑half‑day training course which, judging by its strong popularity, proved to be a real success with our audience. - Getting Started with Docker: Python "Hello World" Example
One of the biggest challenges when using a programming language and environment is ensuring that it works anywhere. Using a platform like Docker enables you to package apps and dependencies into one container to ensure consistency, portability and scalability of resources. - Launch of the Python User Group
December 2024 saw the University launch a Python User Group to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss the programming language and surrounding ecosystem. In a follow-up article research software engineer Andrew Gait talks about how the community has grown over the last 12 months. - Unlocking Research Data Storage: Tips and Guidance
Another practical guide made it to the Top 10, this time on how to request research data storage, we think the community might appreciate more guides. What do you think? - Bringing History to Life: Launch of an Oral History Website
An impressive real world example of how the team have created a research website using Wagtail and Django Stack. - Web Scraping with Python - a guide
Our third guide, the pattern continues! this time on using Python to automate repetitive data collection tasks. This article has links to a GitHub repository containing a guide to web scraping in Python using prominent libraries. It's been written for users who have minimal programming experience so is a great place to start. - PyCon UK Comes to Manchester
There’s been huge interest in the use of Python as a programming language and enabler of research this year. This interest coincided with PyCon, being hosted in Manchester where the University’s Research IT team took a prominent role.
In addition to AI, user guides, containerisation and Python, other popular topics were real world examples of how RIT services are being used for research, GitHub, Matlab and GPUs.
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