The thud you might have heard yesterday was NIH dropping a new Data Management and Sharing Policy. It won’t go into effect until 2023-01-25 but the policy has so many ramifications that I don’t plan to waste time in preparing. … Continue reading →
Author: Kristin Briney
Bulk File Renaming
Today, we’re going to discuss what happens when you don’t end up liking your file naming conventions. (Every time I think I’ve covered file naming conventions enough, I find something new on this topic to talk about. They are my … Continue reading →
Foundational Practices of Research Data Management
If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you’ll know that one of my goals is for all researchers to adopt the basic data management practices that make conducting research easier. I’ve written a whole book on data management, done … Continue reading →
Book Review: How Charts Lie
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 →
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 →