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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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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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War Data: Nuclear Explosions 1945-1998

29 October 2010
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How would you visualize over 2000 nuclear explosions since 1945?
Artist Isao Hashimoto created a video time-lapse that shows the 2053 nuclear tests and explosions between 1945-1998. North Korea’s two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 are not included in the time lapse. If you’d like to view an interactive map of nuclear testing that [...]

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Journalism in the Age of Data

18 October 2010
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How can journalists adapt to the data deluge? One way is to use tools and tricks “from computer science, researchers, and artists” (and, I hope, Information Science).
Geoff McGhee posted this video from Stanford. He writes:

Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some [...]

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The More Data You Have, the Clearer You See

6 October 2010
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The IBM marketing machine has been turning out various commercials that discuss data. What it is, how much of it there is, how it can be used, how channeling it can help your business, and how it can help the planet. The argument goes, if we can mine and analyze the data, then we can [...]

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Facebook: By the Numbers

5 July 2010
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The numbers behind the Facebook phenomenon are staggering. Users spend 500 million minutes per month on the site. Seventy different languages are used on Facebook. As of December 2000, there were an estimated 361 million users on the Internet; as of 2010, Facebook alone has 400 million users. As of this writing, the Facebook user [...]

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Multitaskers Still Unable to Multitask Well

21 June 2010
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Matt Richtel at The New York Times wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago called, “Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price“. He profiled the Campbell family, who live outside of San Francisco, to demonstrate the toll the constant barrage of data via smartphones, computers, and the iPad, takes on both individuals and [...]

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Data Scientist vs. Data Manager

5 December 2009
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So, what exactly is a data scientist? How does this role compare to a data manager?
The authors of a 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) report defined five actors in data management: data users, authors, managers, scientists and funding agencies. Today, I will examine the data scientist vs. the data manager.
First, what are the shared goals [...]

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