I’ve been thinking a lot about documentation this month as I prepare to take 12 weeks of leave away from my job. The upside is that I’ve had 9 months to plan for this, but I will also say that … Continue reading →
Author: Kristin Briney
It Started with a Tweet…
My very first viral tweet, in fact. It turns out that many other people have strong feeling date formats. There is one correct way to write a date and it’s YYYY-MM-DD. https://t.co/HcpEUblwCE — Kristin Briney (@KristinBriney) July 3, 2018 I … Continue reading →
SPEC Kit on Privacy and Library Learning Analytics
I mentioned in a post a few months ago that I started doing research in the area of learning analytics, libraries, privacy, and data management. I’m happy to report that my first publication to come out of this work went … Continue reading →
A Framework for Choosing the Right Visualization Type for Your Data
I’m starting to do more work in the area of data visualization, as evidenced by my most recent publication and my somewhat periodic Twitter rants against pie charts. While I’ve already discussed one of my favorite visualization resources on the … Continue reading →
Privacy v Confidentiality
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the difference between privacy and confidentiality. This issue surfaces in libraries around handling patron data (relevant to my current line of research) but also more generally in how researchers handle human subjects data. … Continue reading →
Come Hear My Thoughts on Data Management and Learning Analytics
I mentioned way back in December that I fell down a research rabbit hole at the end of 2017 but I never said what that rabbit hole was: it’s about data management and library learning analytics. I’m not quite ready … Continue reading →
Why a Bar Chart is Sometimes Better than a Column Chart
Today on the blog, I’m going to talk about the difference between a bar chart (right-left bars) and a column chart (up-down bars). For many, the difference seems negligible — simply the direction of the bars — but the choice … Continue reading →
File Formats
Every once and a while, I run across a topic and think, “surely I’ve covered this one my blog?” The most recent of these topics, which came up when I wrote December’s Exit Strategy post, concerns file formats. File formats … Continue reading →
Eating Our Own Carrot Sticks
One phrase that’s bound to come up at every data management conference is “carrot versus stick” vis-a-vis incentivizing researchers to manage their data better. Carrots are rewards for good practices and sticks are requirements and their consequences relating to data … Continue reading →
The Long List of Data Management Books
There was a long discussion on twitter yesterday (okay, I went on a rant) about the vast number of data management books that have been published for librarians in the past few years. While not exclusively data management books for librarians, … Continue reading →