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What Happens When You Don’t Label Your Axes?

13 December 2010

Have you ever thought that details don’t matter when it comes to data analysis and presentation?
Think again.

Image Source: xkcd
Would you break up with someone over (non-work related) sloppy data presentation?
[Via FlowingData.]

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The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet…and the Web?

7 December 2010
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Is the Web dead? What about net neutrality?
Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff’s August 2010 piece in Wired Magazine called, “The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet” caused a bit of controversy. The authors argued that the Web is losing supremacy, and stated that our online world will be cordoned off into closed [...]

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Digital Preservation Education for NC State Government Employees

19 November 2010
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This past week, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources released guidelines for state employees responsible for preservation of the state’s public record. I have included the press release below. Whether or not you are an employee of the State of North Carolina, if you are interested in learning about digital preservation, I encourage you [...]

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“Quantitative Easing” Explained with Cute Bears

17 November 2010
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Did you understand the controversy over “quantitative easing” at the G-20 Summit last week? Were you able to sift through the news to find and understand why the US should not print more money and buy $600 billion in US Treasury Bonds? Did you even know there was a controversy? Or, like me, did your [...]

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Oxford Launches Research Data Management Website

16 November 2010
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The following announcement was posted to the Research Data Management listserv on 14 November 2010 via S. Hodson. I thought it might be on interest to some of you.

The University of Oxford has recently launched a new Research Data Management Website: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm
The development of this resource was ‘a close collaboration between Research Services, Computing [...]

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Preservation Policies, Forbes, and an Email Time Capsule

12 November 2010
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I’m often asked why the preservation of digital materials is so complicated. After all, isn’t it simply about the storage and migration, or emulation, of digital objects and metadata? Why do you need all of these policies and procedures around a data or digital archive? Why can’t you just store the digital files and leave [...]

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ICPSR Releases “Guidelines for Effective Data Management Plans”

27 October 2010
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The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has released their Guidelines for Effective Data Management Plans.
On the web site ICPSR writes this about these guidelines:

Many federal funding agencies, including NIH and most recently NSF, are requiring that grant applications contain data management plans for projects involving data collection. To support researchers in [...]

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Dilbert Takes on Data Privacy

22 October 2010

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[Via O'Reilly @radar, 18 October 2010.]

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The Internet of Things and a System of Systems

21 October 2010
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We are drowning in a sea of data. There are more things on the Internet than there are people; currently about 1 billion people use the Internet.
We are learning to take data, create information, gain knowledge, and achieve wisdom. We are able to do this by using The Internet of Things to create a [...]

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Google Not Being Evil

20 October 2010
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Why does Google want to know so much about you?
The company provides us with services ranging from maps to email, phones to video, books to social media — all free. Why do they do this, and how can the company afford to do this?
The more products and services the company provides for [...]

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