Government Information and Digital Scholarship
I recently attended the Federal Depository Library Conference in Washington D.C. Among the many interesting topics discussed, one in particular caught my attention and got me thinking about the way my...
View ArticleNetworks: How I learned to stop worrying and love the hairball
Do a Google image search for data visualization and undoubtedly you will see many examples of networks, otherwise known as graphs. The identification and study of these networks is useful in a variety...
View ArticleTopic Modeling: Worth Learning as a Librarian?
Aside from preparing for the onslaught of instruction that will be fall semester, my time lately has been spent exploring topic modeling (I realize that I am somewhat late to the game on this, but it...
View ArticleUpcoming Data Visualization Workshop
On Tuesday, September 9th I will be teaching a workshop on data visualization for the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute, “Introduction to Data Visualization I: Visualization with Gephi.” For the...
View ArticleCensus Data Made Easy
Finding government information can be challenging, even for those of us practiced in the task. Uncovering government data in a form that is easily usable can be evenmore difficult, graying the hair of...
View ArticleHistorical Census Browser
My last post examined a tool for exploring current Census data and exporting it in an easy to use format. Now what about historical Census data? Not the data from a few decades ago – we’re talking...
View ArticleI want to live in an open-source house
Perhaps the reality of inhabiting a structure for which the assembly of requires “minimal formal skill or training” would be less than ideal. Nonetheless, the WikiHouse project is one of my favorite...
View ArticleOpen Access Scholarship and Open Government Information: Two Sides of the...
As Sunshine Week comes to a close, I cannot help but think about the similarities between open access to scholarly information and the push for increased transparency in our government. I am certainly...
View ArticleConnecting Zotero to cloud storage
I use Zotero a lot, but not as much as some. For those of you out there who find your 300 MB of free file storage dwindling, connecting Zotero to a cloud storage service via its file sync feature is a...
View ArticleVisualizing Data with R and ggplot2
Lately, I have been spending more time playing around with R. As an R beginner and someone interested in data visualization, one of my favorite packages so far is ggplot2. This package vastly...
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