Category: Data
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Reflections on RDM
Last week was the eighth and final week of the online class portion of the Biomedical and Health RDM for Librarians course. I’ve been attempting to reflect on my progress through this course over the last few weeks (with varying levels of success), but now it’s time for my final review. I initially applied for…
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Data Analysis is Not For the Faint of Heart
The last few weeks have been very exciting for me because I have been working on my first research project as a professional librarian. To support my outreach work to health professionals in the community, I surveyed K-12 school nurses about their information needs. The collection period is over, and now it’s time to dig…
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When is nothing better than something?
I recently read an article in the May 2016 volume of C&RL News about the validity of survey data. The author, Emma Oxford, draws on her own experience to say that “some data is only better than no data if it is good data. Bad data is never better than no data”. I have created…
Kathryn Vela 