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 →
Author: Kristin Briney
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 →
#TrumpSci
There have been several discussions among my data librarian colleagues about the future of open data and science in 2017, spurned on by articles such as this one on the future of data sharing and these articles on the continued … Continue reading →
The Many Layers of Open
I was at OpenCon last week and left with lots of ideas about being open. In particular, my general understanding of open broadened to thinking about: open is really just a means to other things, the necessity of advocacy, and … Continue reading →
Spreadsheet Best Practices
I gave a webinar recently on tools and tips for data management. While many of the themes I spoke about have been covered here previously (though you should really check out the webinar slides – they’re awesome), I realized that I … Continue reading →
Open Data’s Dirty Little Secret
Earlier this week, I was very happy to take part in the Digital Science webinar on data management. I spoke about how data management should be accessible and understandable to all and not a barrier to research. I also made … Continue reading →