It is the 5-year anniversary of me starting this blog! I can’t believe that it’s already been 5 years. How did that happen?! I put up my very first post on 2013-02-20: The Blog I Wish I Had A lot … Continue reading →
Author: Kristin Briney
Wrapping Up a Project, Part 2
Twice in the month of January, I had to find files from an old project. With resignation, I delved into old folders only to find that, wow, there’s a “FinalDocuments” subfolder with everything I need all laid out for me … Continue reading →
Gaining Competency in Data Visualization
I couldn’t be more excited that my latest journal article, “Gaining Competency: Learning to Teach Data Visualization,” was just published in the Journal of eScience Librarianship. The idea behind the paper is: how do we as librarians teach data skills … Continue reading →
Exit Stage Left
Have you ever fallen down a research rabbit hole? It does not happen to me very often (thankfully) but when it does, I fall deep. All of this is to say that I’m back from my 5-month blogging hiatus. I … Continue reading →
Two Strategies for Working with Dates in Excel
One of the periodic discussions that comes up as a data management evangelist (beside the “data is” v. “data are” debate) is about how Excel is terrible with dates. Excel mangles dates, mangles non-date data into dates, and doesn’t play nice … Continue reading →
Data Privacy/Security Is Not An Afterthought
I’m currently doing a lot of reading for an upcoming presentation at the American Library Association annual meeting on learning analytics, library patron privacy, and data management. This panel presentation is being given in response to the trend in academic … Continue reading →
Making Decisions About Your Data
I ran across this lovely video by UMN copyright librarian Nancy Sims on making decisions about your research data and found it so helpful that I had to share it here. She gives an excellent overview of how copyright (see my … Continue reading →
Privacy Tools
Let’s talk for a moment about data privacy. With so much going on in the US news, you might have missed recent efforts to roll back the FCC rule on internet privacy. Basically, removing these rules would allow internet service … Continue reading →
Love Your Data 2017: Finding the Right Data
It’s that time of the year again – Love Your Data Week. This annual celebration focuses on getting more from your data with helpful data management tips and skills. Each day of Love Your Data Week has its own theme, … Continue reading →
Book Review: Effective Data Visualization
I know a little bit about a lot of data things, but one area I’m weak in is data visualization. Sure, I can make a graph in Excel but that doesn’t mean that the graph is necessarily good. Thankfully, Sal … Continue reading →