I revised the About page today. It now includes a description of what I’m trying to do with the rwebdb project. It also includes a list of principles that I find helpful when writing this blog and when imagining education tomorrow. I’ve reproduced the new About page in this blog post.
background, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, August 11, 2010 6:29 am | 
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My greatest hopes are that rwebdb will touch a nerve in people and provide encouragement for them to create tomorrow for themselves.
background, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, July 9, 2010 11:52 am | Comments Off
Yesterday the Delta Project released an impressive web-based tool that allows journalists, officials, policymakers, and the public to conveniently explore higher education finances in the United States. A report in Inside Higher Ed described it this way: “the new database’s groundbreaking feature is that – fasten your seatbelts – it allows for an analysis of the budget priorities of individual institutions.” Good news indeed.
background, data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, 10:02 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
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, June 9, 2010 7:06 am | Comments Off
An illustration of why data curation is necessary for even modestly complex data sets.
background, data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, May 27, 2010 10:38 am | Comments Off
The rwebdb project rests on a set of core beliefs. It also includes an initial set of anticipated features to be developed with a initial technology stack. This post lists the core beliefs, project features, and technology stack.
background, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, April 20, 2010 9:00 am | Comments Off
Today marks the start of an experiment designed to see if data analysis and visualization can engage people around the single question of why higher education in the United States costs so much.
background, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, April 19, 2010 6:19 pm | Comments Off
Yesterday I registered a domain name called rwebdb.com, or rWebDB as in Our Web DB where DB := database (of course). Read more..
Tags: free learning, web data system
background, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, February 3, 2009 12:51 pm | Comments Off
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