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A Hat Tip to Cat Herders

19 January 2010
A Hat Tip to Cat Herders | Project Managers

A friend of mine emailed me this morning to say that I should have used wild kitties as the theme of this blog rather than wild horses. He does have a point.
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World Wide Mush? An Argument Against the “Internet as a Collective”

10 January 2010
Jaron Lanier, You are Not a Gadget

Researcher Jaron Lanier has an interesting article in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal entitled “World Wide Mush“. The article is a plug for his book, You Are Not a Gadget. Although the author does not specifically discuss large-scale data management, I am including it because he addressed “the collective” work of the Internet, upon which [...]

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Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

7 January 2010
Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

I just finished reading the Executive Summary of a report out by the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age. The report is entitled, “Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age“. The full report is available online for [...]

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Data Scientist vs. Data Manager

5 December 2009
intersection of science and technology

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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