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Posted Consolidated Federal Funds Reports' Access Changes to Anecdotes about Data
The Consolidated Federal Funds Report by the Census Bureau provided data on which funds were distributed from the federal government to states, counties and places by program and agency. I'm using the past tense because in 2012 the US Federal...
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Posted Google+ Notifications by Circle to PIM Blog: Personal Information Management for Researchers
Google has added notifications by circle, e.g. when you select this option, you'll be notified by the notification box in the Google Bar and via email (unless you go turn it off). Click to see full-size image. This is a...
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Posted ICPSR 2012 Data Fair | Analyzing Election Data with ICPSR | 10/1-10/3 to Anecdotes about Data
The ICPSR 2012 Data Fair is all about elections data! The sessions are scheduled for October 1-3, 2012. The series of webcasts will focus on election data held in ICPSR's archives, and how to use them for analysis and teaching....
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Posted Making Decisions About Your Research Data to Anecdotes about Data
Nancy Sims (@CopyrightLibn) explains a few of the things researchers may need to keep in mind when making decisions about how to store, share, and provide access to research data in this video:...
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Posted testing to Nine Tenths of the Universe
07 Pivot Tables 2010.xlsx...
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Posted Institutionalized Racism & Reporting on Census Data to Anecdotes about Data
The Census Bureau collects race and Hispanic origin information following the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) standards for collecting and tabulating data on race and ethnicity. The current standards identify five race groups: white, black or African-American, American...
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Posted Updates to American Factfinder to Anecdotes about Data
American Factfinder has had a few tweaks recently that improve its performance. Added to the homepage are: Quick Facts on the left hand side of the screen for summary statistics about states and counties. the FTP server on right hand...
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Posted Blog Style Updated to Anecdotes about Data
The style of this blog has been updated in anticipation of updates to the site in which appears: Data Services at the University of Minnesota Libraries....
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Posted Share Google Forms to Google+ to PIM Blog: Personal Information Management for Researchers
Starting today, you can share forms you create to your Google+ Circles. I would expect to see Google+ sharing for other Google Docs coming pretty soon now. Note, effectiveness of Google+ as sharing venue depends on much your target audience...
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Posted Google+ Stream is now adjustable to PIM Blog: Personal Information Management for Researchers
Google recently introduced the option to control how much of the content from each of your circles appears in the main stream. Until now, your main stream would just show every post from every person you've added to any circle....
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Posted Google+ Hangouts now tied to specific posts to PIM Blog: Personal Information Management for Researchers
Google+ has just extended its Hangouts feature (e.g. video chat/conferencing) to apply to specific posts. This is pretty cool for reasons I'll explain below. But first, a short story for context... Just yesterday in the SS&PP department meeting we were...
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Posted Google+: Now Available for UMN Google Accounts (Long Post) to PIM Blog: Personal Information Management for Researchers
In the last two weeks, Google+ has become available for UMN Google accounts. You can tell it's live because if you're logged into your email, then in the black bar across the top of the tab at the very far...
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Posted Google+ : GBooks and Games to PIM Blog: Personal Information Management for Researchers
Google+ has added a few new features in the last week. The first is that you can now share information from your Google Books account to Google+. In theory you can include the books in your Google Books account into...
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Posted Google+. Yep, Another Social Network. to PIM Blog: Personal Information Management for Researchers
Google+ debuted about a month ago. Despite a limited initial release, its user base has exploded. This isn't that surprising considering the prevalence of Google accounts already in use and the comfort most people now have with the idea of...
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Posted Census 2010 Redistricting Files Published State by State Only to Anecdotes about Data
I guess it's been a while since I last looked at Census Bureau redistricting data because I was briefly surprised to find that the data are only available state by state. If you wish to view the data for the...
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Posted Census Data & Zip Codes to Anecdotes about Data
The Census Bureau does not publish data by Zip Code. Zip Codes are mail delivery codes created at and for the convenience of the U.S. Postal Service. Zip Codes are not consistent geographic units and the Census Bureau has to...
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Posted What Data Can I Expect to Get from the 2010 Census? to Anecdotes about Data
With the development of the American Community Survey over the last decade, the 2010 Census was much, much shorter than in 2000 or indeed any previous Census except for 1790. In 2010, there were only 10 questions covering: how many...
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Posted Reality Check on Real-Time Data to Anecdotes about Data
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) runs many real-time data streams including water stage data. While the USGS clearly thinks this is worth doing, they provide a succinct reminder to users that, like everything in life, real-time data are not...
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Posted National Science Foundation to begin requiring data management plans for all grant proposals to Anecdotes about Data
"During the May 5th meeting of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation (NSF) officials announced a change in the implementation of the existing policy on sharing research data. In particular, on or around October, 2010, NSF is planning to...
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Posted Social science electronic data library : SSEDL Now Available! to Anecdotes about Data
More than 500 health and social science datasets from more than 250 studies, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). SSEDL data archives have been used by thousands of students and professionals at...
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Posted National Climatic Data Center Resources to Wilson Reference Staff Blog
A student came by today with a class assignment that requires them to get a big picture view of the climate for a given area of the US. There may be more students from the same class, so I thought...
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Posted 2010 ICPSR Summer Program Registration is open to Anecdotes about Data
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is pleased to announce the 2010 Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. As many subscribers to this list already know, the main component of the Summer Program is held...
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Posted STATA Tutorials on YouTube from the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts to Anecdotes about Data
And now the College of Liberal Arts is starting on a series of STATA tutorials at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqGlV9uKrM&feature=youtube_gdata!...
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Posted SPSS Tutorials on YouTube from the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts to Anecdotes about Data
The U's College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has a YouTube channel that contains, among other things, several nifty SPSS tutorials. Links below to individual tutorials, as well as the CLA Channel: SPSS Tutorials In Order http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUV7sYmRbwg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Sd6KAGPt0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSx7mKqAJIw&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baz6tw6O7Gc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzR4qYK3D3s...
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Posted ICPSR Research Paper Competitions to Anecdotes about Data
ICPSR is sponsoring three competitions to highlight the best student research papers (undergraduate and master's) using quantitative data. The objective is to encourage students to explore the social sciences by means of critical analysis of a topic supported by quantitative...
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Posted ALA Connect to Emerging Tech Expo
ALA Connect is the American Library Association's social network. Because it's relatively new, usage by ALA members is probably still pretty low. However, it has a lot of potential and some units within ALA have begun it to conduct their...
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Posted Ning to Emerging Tech Expo
"Ning is a platform for creating your own social network. Our passion is putting new social networks in the hands of anyone with a good idea. With Ning, your social network can be for anything and anyone. You start by...
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Posted Twitter to Emerging Tech Expo
"Twitter is a free communication and social networking tool which allows you to convey short messages of up to 140 characters to your circle of friends via the Twitter website, SMS, email, IM, or other Twitter client. Messages appear not...
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Posted Lemon Lollipop Daylily & Dark Purple Clematis blooming to Nine Tenths of the Universe
Daylily started today; Clematis been going ~ a week. It's on the back side of the garage and so happy there that I need to put up the last bit of trellis for the plant to grow onto. First of...
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