I’m putting my librarian hat on for today’s post as we’re looking at citation managers. There’s a lot to love about this type of software (easy citation formatting!!!) but in essence, they’re a tool for managing a specific type of … Continue reading →
Author: Kristin Briney
Adding R to the Data Toolkit
I’ve officially jumped on the R bandwagon. I worked on a project last year for which R turned out to be the best solution to tackling a lot of messy data (OpenRefine was not reproducible enough and let’s not even … Continue reading →
Breaking the Blogging Silence
Wow what a year it’s been. I know that it has been really quiet on the blog since this time last year and that’s because life has been anything but quiet! I stopped posting here a year ago when we … Continue reading →
Data Management in Library Learning Analytics
My latest paper was published this week and I am so very excited to share it with you all. It is Data Management Practices in Academic Library Learning Analytics: A Critical Review. Every article has a story behind it and this … Continue reading →
Taking a Break: Some Stories of Documentation
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 →
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 →