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Data Visualization Support Roles

By ALeahey

July 22, 2014

Hello IASSISTers, Since our last entry, the Data Visualization Working Group (DVIG) has been connecting through email to gather information and share knowledge about data visualization tools, best practices, teaching, and events of interest. A major theme of conversation has been open source programming frameworks like R statistical packages to conduct visualization. Many other non-programming tools have also been discussed and shared. The question of tools is not an easy one, and there are a lot out there!

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Statistical Associates Publishing

By Amy West

June 16, 2014

Statistical Associates Publishing is a website that offers guides focused primarily on correctly executing various statistical techniques. The guides are short and provide screenshots and step-by-step instructions for for some of the major commercial statistical packages. One can buy the books - each at very low prices $5USD or less per book from Amazon - or request a free copy from the publisher with some reasonable restrictions on use. I should note that since I don’t spend much time doing statistics myself, I feel a bit unqualified to attest to the quality of the materials.

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IASSIST 2014 conference song

By walterg

June 8, 2014

Sung to the tune of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind”; thanks to San, Paula, Bill, and Vince for their suggestions, and Vince, Dan and Kate for helping to drown out my own voice :) If anyone has a video version of this, send me the link, so I can add it here: If you could read my data What a tale these points would tell At Toronto’s IASSIST 40

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IASSIST SIGDMC Annual Report 2013-2014

By SKramer

May 30, 2014

By Carol Perry & Stefan Kramer, co-chairs Last updated: 2014-05-29 by CP The major activity of the Data Management & Curation Interest Group (SIGDMC) in the last year was the conceptualization, organization, submission, and offering of the June 2, 2014, morning workshop Data Management & Curation: Lessons from Government, Academia, and Research. It features seven invited presenters, and session and breakout group moderators from the SIGDMC membership, which also provided input on the breakout group topics.

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Research Data Management Issues Across Environments

By mhayslett

May 29, 2014

Lots of conversations going on these days in different venues where people are asking many of the same questions: how do we teach researchers about data management with limited staff, and what data management services should we offer? How do we find sustainable ways to manage data that leverage the efforts of many different repositories, those in government, institutions and disciplinary ones? How do we coalesce standard practice and reasonable but effective policies at at least the national level and preferably on a global scale?

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One week to IASSIST 2014!

By walterg

May 26, 2014

It’s a week to go until IASSIST 2014 begins! (If you haven’t registered yet, better get to it!) Here are a few things you might like to know before you get here: If you haven’t looked at them yet, please peruse the “How to get here” and “Local information” pages on the conference website under ‘Visitors’ on the top menu (where you can find a map-based guide to Toronto attractions);

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New 'Special Issue' IQ now available!

By StuartM

May 26, 2014

Editor’s notes Special issue: A pioneer data librarian Welcome to the special volume of the IASSIST Quarterly(IQ (37):1-4, 2013). This special issue started as exchange of ideas between Libbie Stephenson and Margaret Adams to collect papers relating to the work of Sue A. Dodd. Margaret Adams (Peggy) acted as the guest editor and the background and content of this volume is described in her preface to this volume on the following page.

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IASSIST Africa Regional Report 2013-2014

By H.L. Woolfrey

May 16, 2014

Freeing African Data Two regional developments have the potential to get African government data into the public domain. Putting their disaggregated data out there can benefit African governance through ensuring transparency and allowing feedback from policy analysis to support better government planning. The World Bank’s Central microdata catalog has been around since 2012 and continues to expand its listing of data sources. This is currently the only comprehensive online source for microdata produced by African official data producers, as a listing of country datasets is not available on most African government websites.

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e-Science Portal for New England Librarians: Research Data Management Links

By mingluwang

May 13, 2014

e-Science Portal for New England Librarians has been gathering comprehensive resources links to keep librarians updated about e-Science issues and library’s new roles and functions. There is a “Data Management” section of the portal gathering publications, guides, tools, and other resources falling under the following general data management topics: Data Management Planning Research Data Cycles Data Curation Metadata Data Repositories

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New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum

By mingluwang

May 13, 2014

The New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum (NECDMC) is an instructional tool for teaching data management best practices to undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in the health sciences, sciences, and engineering disciplines. Each of the curriculum’s seven online instructional modules aligns with the National Science Foundation’s data management plan recommendations and addresses universal data management challenges. Included in the curriculum is a collection of actual research cases that provides a discipline specific context to the content of the instructional modules.

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Data Visualization Support Roles

Statistical Associates Publishing

IASSIST 2014 conference song

IASSIST SIGDMC Annual Report 2013-2014

Research Data Management Issues Across Environments

One week to IASSIST 2014!

New 'Special Issue' IQ now available!

IASSIST Africa Regional Report 2013-2014

e-Science Portal for New England Librarians: Research Data Management Links

New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum

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