How do I earn GSU Data Ready! Badges?CLICK HERE for a VIDEO WALK-THROUGH of below steps.
See the FAQs at the bottom of this page -- More questions? Contact Dr. Mandy.
BADGES - Software & Coding TrainingSoftware & Coding Training badges and tutorials cover skills in quantitative & qualitative data analysis, data visualization, and data collection & discovery.
Data Viz Ready! Badge [3 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
GIS Ready! Badge [2 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
NVivo Ready! Badge [2 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
NVivo Team Ready! Badge [2 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Python Ready! Badge [3 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Python & Machine Learning Ready! Badge [3 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
R Basics Ready! Badge [2 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
R Advanced Ready! Badge [2 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
SAS Ready! Badge [2 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
SPSS Ready! Badge [2 tutorials]Tutorials Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Stata Ready! Badge [3 tutorials]
BADGE - Data Ready! BadgeData Ready! badge and video tutorials cover core data literacy skills with real-life examples and expose students to a variety of data tools.
Data Ready! Badge
Videos within the Data Ready! Badge video series:
Data skills are highly valued by today's employers -- "the most lucrative skill[s] to have" and "the most valuable skill[s] you can learn." By earning GSU Data Ready! Badges, you demonstrate to potential employers that you are committed to growing the data skills that they look for in hires.
Add your badges to your résumé or CV or to the Licenses & Certifications section of your LinkedIn profile.
Describe the skills you learned using GSU's College-to-Career (CTC) Competency Skills – learn more at collegetocareer.gsu.edu
Talk about how knowing data analysis programs like R or SPSS will help you analyze data to improve the company's or organization's services.
Talk about how you can use Tableau to make interactive data visualization dashboards for company/organization client engagement.
Tell graduate programs what you learned and how you are now better prepared to be successful in their program.
The programs will see your initiative as great preparation for the data skills you'll be learning during your graduate studies.
The GSU Data Ready! Badges program resonates with the GSU's Strategic Plan, particularly with the following goals from the Beyond College to Career focus and Student Success 2.0 focus:
1.2 Develop students’ digital skills through an infusion of content into the general education curriculum and through certificates or micro-credentialing at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
3.2 Expand availability of high-demand degree programs and other credentials at the graduate level with attention to student needs around instructional modality (online, face-to-face, hybrid), affordability and connection to local, national and global workforce needs.
Integrate GSU Data Ready! Badges into your course or program curriculum! Students can attend view recorded tutorials on their own time, go to the GSU Library's Stacks course catalog to join/"enroll" in the appropriate GSU Data Ready! Badge course, and complete our quiz learning assessments to earn badges. Once students receive a badge, have them share it with you for verification by either (1) having them forward their Badgr email notification, or (2) having them create a Badgr account to then send you a link to their badge in their Badgr Backpack.
It's that simple and requires no content creation by you!
Our GSU Data Ready! Badges tracks: Software & Coding Training | Data Ready! Badge Video Series
A digital badge/micro-credential is a visual symbol of accomplishment. They can be awarded for any definable achievement and earned in many learning environments, games, or the workplace. We are using the GSU Stacks/Canvas system and the Badgr / Canvas Badges "Open Badges" system to award verifiable badges.
No. Only current GSU students, faculty, and staff can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges. GSU Alumni and NON-GSU people cannot earn badges because the badge system requires a current and active CampusID.
Yes. GSU alumni and NON-GSU people are welcome to view our recorded tutorials.
No. Earning GSU Data Ready! Badges is FREE!
No. Earning GSU Data Ready! Badges is an extra-curricular, non-credit-bearing option for building your data skills. Sometimes professors will require earning badges in their courses for required or extra credit.
Yes. You can attend a live workshop [if they are being offered] OR watch a recorded tutorial -- both count to earn Software & Coding Training badges and the Data Ready! Badge.
Yes. Attending a live workshop [if they are being offered] counts to earn all of our badges.
Sometimes there is a delay in receiving the badge email notification or it showing up in the Badges tab -- check back in 1-3 days, and if your badge is still not showing, contact Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) Department Head.
No, but recommended. While not required to receive badges, we recommend creating a Badgr / Canvas Badges account so you can take advantage of Badgr / Canvas Badges Backpack feature for easily sharing your digital badges with others.
No. The GSU Data Ready! Badges do not expire. Your badge will have the issue date on it to indicate when you received the badge.
Yes. Every badge page indicates that it's been verified, provides a Re-verify Badge button to verify on the spot, and includes an Independently Verify Badge link to Open Badges 2.0 Validator to validate the badge and verify the recipient.
Yes, please do! See our suggestions for ways you might integrate our badges into your course or program curriculum.
No. Only GSU course instructors can assign GSU Data Ready! Badges for required or extra credit because only current GSU affiliates (students, faculty, and staff) can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges. Non-GSU students are welcome to view recorded tutorials, and Non-GSU instructors are welcome to assign tutorials and create their own approach for having students verify that students met the requirement. NOTE: We cannot track attendance at live workshops and/or tutorial viewing for you.
No. ​Only tutorials in which a methodology and/or a software application is taught and that involve learning specific data/methods skills count toward the badges; Data in the ATL talks and Data Empowered Events do not meet these specific outcomes.
Contact Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Head of the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) Department.
