On variable metadata and the need to search for inconsistencies and changes in variables over time. Building the scaffolding needed to design and populate the data warehouse.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, June 30, 2010 11:52 am | 
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Sometimes moving forward requires a step backwards.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, June 23, 2010 9:48 am | Comments Off
Thinking ahead helps inform the data build. This post makes explicit an iterative process that never stops, even during application development.
Includes threaded bookmarks on:
1. Truly Open Data.
2. Transparency is Not Enough.
3. Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of Open Data.
background, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, June 21, 2010 9:59 am | Comments Off
On metadata as utilities for project management and as guides to the meaning of data and how that meaning changes over time.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, June 11, 2010 9:30 am | Comments Off
On purple people eaters, purple people-eaters, purple-people eaters, and sovereign debt.
rworld | Gary Lewis, June 9, 2010 5:00 pm | Comments Off
A log of questions about the IPEDS data sets, with an answer to why no data file exists for 1999-2000 on the NCES download site.
background, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, 7:06 am | Comments Off
On extending the time series back to 1987 and extolling the virtues of minutiae.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, June 8, 2010 3:21 pm | Comments Off
In speech rworld sounds like “our world.” That is the best I can do to describe what seems to be happening in the world today. We as individual people are now saying to institutions across the spectrum “many of your ways have gone seriously astray; it’s our time to imagine and build tomorrow.” And so begins a new personal learning project.
rworld | Gary Lewis, June 2, 2010 11:01 am | Comments Off
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