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Social Sciences Librarian

By mhayslett

September 25, 2012

Position: Social Sciences Librarian Available: January 1, 2013 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a creative, enthusiastic, and collaborative Social Sciences Librarian to join the Davis Library Research and Instructional Services Department as the Subject Librarian for the departments of Sociology and Political Science. The Social Sciences Librarian will apply state of the art technology to reference and research work, innovative outreach, evolving collection development, and dynamic data services.

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Data-related blog posts coming out of Open Repositories 2012 conference

By robin

September 19, 2012

I’d been meaning to write an IASSIST blog post about OR 2012, hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Host Organising Committee led by Co-Chair and IASSISTer Stuart Macdonald in July, because it had such good DATA content. Fortunately Simon Hodson, the UK’s JISC Managing Research Data Programme Manager, has provided this introduction and has allowed me to post it here, with further links to his analytic blog posts, and even those contain further links to OTHER blog posts talking about OR2012 and data!

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- Friday posting -

By plackie@carleton.edu

September 7, 2012

One of the highlights of the after hours hanging out during IASSIST conferences is getting to play some pool and make geeky data jokes you don’t have to explain to anyone. For you pool-playing enthusiasts, I sharethis YouTube of a potential future IASSIST conference goer .. (note, none of us can play anywhere near the level of this 5 yr old.) Happy Weekend everyone!

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A list of upcoming Big Data conferences

By plackie@carleton.edu

August 25, 2012

check out AnalyticBridge (a social network for analytic professionals) Here is a reposting their list of upcoming conferences. Conferences Discussions - AnalyticBridge{.rss-title} Sentiment Analysis Symposium, October 29-30, San Francisco{.rss-item} Beyond Hadoop: next generation of big data analytics - August 22{.rss-item} SFBay ACM - Data Mining Hackathon on Big Data on August 18{.rss-item} Data Mining: Failure to Launch ( Live Predictive Analytics Web Event 8/15 & 9/6 ){.rss-item} Predictive Analytics & Data Mining Vendor-Neutral Courses [ Wash, DC - Sept | Las Vegas - Dec ]{.

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Data Visualization tools & greater emphasis on teaching to be incorporated into R-Studio!

By plackie@carleton.edu

August 21, 2012

Reposted from the RStudio Blog: Welcome Hadley, Winston, and Garrett! August 20, 2012 in News RStudio’s mission from the beginning has been to create powerful tools that support the practices and techniques required for creating trustworthy, high quality analysis. For many years Hadley Wickham has been teaching and working on his own set of tools for R with many of the same core goals. We’ve been collaborating quite a bit with Hadley over the past couple of years and today we’re excited to announce that Hadley, Winston Chang, and Garrett Grolemund are joining RStudio so we can continue to work together much more closely.

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Teaching integrity in empirical research: a soup to nuts protocol

By h.dekker

August 16, 2012

Great work by Richard Ball, an Economics professor at Haverford College and Norm Medeiros, a Haverford librarian. I’m already planning to incorporate their protocol into my formal and informal data literacy instruction. I highly recommend a visit to their website: Teaching integrity in empirical research: a soup to nuts protocol They’ve also published a paper on their work. Here’s the abstract: This article describes a protocol the authors developed for teaching undergraduates to document their statistical analyses for empirical research projects so that their results are completely reproducible and verifiable.

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Knight Foundation Data Challenge (FYI)

By plackie@carleton.edu

July 11, 2012

The Knight Foundation announced a data-related grant opportunity in a kind of “tweet your grant proposal” format. The call has closed but over 800 of the applications are viewable through Tumblr. In a simple search of the applications with the words “data professionals” returned 148 results. Of these, some of the more related are: My submission: A passion for data, and the professionals who keep it alive{.gs-title} A proposal for a dating service for data professionals :} DATABLE | Data based dating{.

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Data Discussion Group at ALA Annual

By h.mooney

June 29, 2012

A number of U.S. IASSISTers were at the recent American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. This years program (finally!) featured a number of data related topics, including the third meeting of the Association of College & Research Libraries Numeric and Geospatial Data Interest Group (DIG). Our discussion covered topics such as content management systems, data hosting, collection development for small data, and changing professional roles. A full report of the meeting is available at http://connect.

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2012 Report from the Interest Group on Human Subjects Review Committees and Privacy and Confidentiality in Research

By e.stephenson

June 19, 2012

For those of you exploring issues of human subjects, privacy and confidentiality, this group may be of interest. In the coming year we hope to put together some resources and guides for those working with confidential data or human subjects related work. Please contact libbie@ucla.edu if you are “interested”! ** ** Interest Group on Human Subjects Review Committees and Privacy and Confidentiality in Research This group will focus on issues related to conducting research using human subjects in the social sciences.

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The R Guide to ESDS Large-Scale Government Surveys

By robin

June 15, 2012

ESDS Government has produced a new guide, The R Guide to ESDS Large-Scale Government Surveys. The aim of this guide is to provide an introduction to analysing large scale government surveys with the help of the R statistical software package. The guide focuses on providing step-by-step examples of common operations most users carry out in the course of their research: how to open data sets, do basic data manipulation operations, produce simple descriptive statistics or weighted contingency tables.

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Social Sciences Librarian

Data-related blog posts coming out of Open Repositories 2012 conference

- Friday posting -

A list of upcoming Big Data conferences

Data Visualization tools & greater emphasis on teaching to be incorporated into R-Studio!

Teaching integrity in empirical research: a soup to nuts protocol

Knight Foundation Data Challenge (FYI)

Data Discussion Group at ALA Annual

2012 Report from the Interest Group on Human Subjects Review Committees and Privacy and Confidentiality in Research

The R Guide to ESDS Large-Scale Government Surveys

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