Continuing in my pandemic reading of data books, next up is “How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information” by Alberto Cairo. (I didn’t plan to be a predominately book review blog, but I need a way to channel the … Continue reading →
Author: Kristin Briney
File Naming Convention Worksheet
I’ve been working on a lot of data management resources at work recently. At my last position, I was really focused on 3-5 minute videos but I’m currently taken with the concept of 1-2 page data management handouts. I described … Continue reading →
Project Close Out Checklist for Research Data
Researchers tend to think about data management at key times during a project, such as when writing a data management plan for grant funding and when preparing for data collection. But there’s one other critical time for data management in … Continue reading →
Recent Publications
It’s always nice to have new publications to put up on the blog, especially when they’re all things I’ve been working on for at least a year. If you’re interested in privacy and data and libraries, I hope you check … Continue reading →
Book Review: Invisible Women
The book, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, is one of those books that I’m going to shove toward my unsuspecting friends and say “read this!”, it’s so good. It’s validating for women, will be eye-opening … Continue reading →
Pivot Tables
One of my recent posts touched how powerful R is for data cleaning and manipulation, but I want to take a step back and recognize that a ton of science gets done in Excel. And while Excel has many limitations … Continue reading →
Book Review: Storytelling with Data
One of the data areas that I’m currently interested in is data visualization, which has resulted in a pile of data viz books in my to-read list. I’ve been working my way through Show Me the Numbers, which may be … Continue reading →
Managing Your Literature
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 →
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 →