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(U.S.) C2ER offering Basic Analyst training in March in DC

By mhayslett

January 10, 2013

The Council for Community and Economic Research will be offering Basic Analyst Training in March in Washington, DC. Expensive reg, but looks interesting. +———————————————————————–+ | [Register](http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=77370702&msgi | | d=989721&act=28M5&c=364653&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fc2er.org%2Fevents | | %2FRegistration.asp%3Faction%3Dregform1%26Event_Id%3D90) | | | | (Limited seats available) | | | | The purpose of this training is to enhance the knowledge, skills and | | abilities of those new to community and economic development | | research. This training provides an overview of key data sources and | | effective techniques to conduct research in support of economic | | development strategies.

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!

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 ]{.

IASSIST Fellows application now closed

By l.martinez-uribe

March 3, 2012

The application for IASSIST Fellows is now closed. Over 40 applications from 23 different countries have been received with the following number of applications by region: 23 Latin America 12 Africa 6 Asia The Fellows Committee is now working to evaluate the applications and will make the decisions in the following weeks. Good luck to all participants.

IASSIST 2012 Fellows Program

By l.martinez-uribe

January 31, 2012

The IASSIST Fellows Program is now accepting applications for financial support to attend the IASSIST 2012 conference in Washington [http://www.iassist2012.org/], from data professionals from countries with emerging economies who are developing and managing data infrastructures at their home institutions. Please be aware that funding is not intended to cover the entire cost of attending the conference. The applicant’s home institution must provide some level of financial support to supplement the IASSIST Fellow award.

IASSIST Latin Engagement Action Group

By l.martinez-uribe

November 3, 2011

The Latin Engagement Action Group have come up with a number of outreach activities aimed at supporting data professionals from Spanish and Portuguese speaking educational institutions, namely: 1. Research Data Management Webinars (complete with IASSIST contribution) for Spanish/Portuguese data specialists (http://www.recolecta.net/buscador/webminars.jsp) Stuart Macdonald and Luis Martínez-Uribe in collaboration with Alicia López Medina (UNED, Spain), the Spanish Agency of Science and Technology (FECYT) and the network of Spanish repositories RECOLECTA have organised a programme of webinars in 3 strands starting in October to discuss RDM issues:

Workshop: Building a Culture of Research Data Citation

By mwitt

October 20, 2011

Building a Culture of Research Data Citation Workshop at eResearch Australasia 2011 Thursday 10 November 2011: 9:00-12:30 http://conference.eresearch.edu.au/workshops/#8 The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is currently developing a service called “Cite My Data” [1], which uses the international DataCite infrastructure [2] to support the citation of Australian research sector datasets. The DataCite infrastructure is built on the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system [3]–widely used for citation and tracking of scholarly publications.

Data can be cool

By bo@uoguelph.ca

October 6, 2011

As I prepare to leave Guelph there are lots of things I will miss - but what I will maybe miss most is the Data Resource Centre and the creative people who work there. If you link to the picasa album below you will see some awesome posters they have made to showcase services and bring people into the world of Data and GIS. The images on some of the posters are really powerful….

Torture, Numbers, and Digital Tape

By kboye

February 2, 2011

The IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) volume 33 number 3 is now on the web: [http://iassistdata.org/iq/issue/33/3] With this issue concentrating on quantitative investigations and the use of statistics, I came to think of the Mark Twain citation “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” With the violent title of the first article (see below), the article on numbers and statistics, and the report from a national statistics agency, the “Torture,Numbers, and Digital Tape” title surfaced.

Communicate with IASSIST colleagues via interest groups

By PamB

January 3, 2011

After our annual conferences, members often want to continue conversations with IASSIST colleagues on topics of professional interest. Your Administrative Committee has responded by creating the Interest Group Development Action Group. Its charge is to identify and help form interest groups so members can continue those conversations. An interest group is a great way to share information on a topic of mutual interest, learn more about it, and share that knowledge with the larger IASSIST membership.

(U.S.) C2ER offering Basic Analyst training in March in DC

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

A list of upcoming Big Data conferences

IASSIST Fellows application now closed

IASSIST 2012 Fellows Program

IASSIST Latin Engagement Action Group

Workshop: Building a Culture of Research Data Citation

Data can be cool

Torture, Numbers, and Digital Tape

Communicate with IASSIST colleagues via interest groups

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