rwebdb: Reflections
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 | 
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rwebdb: Good News
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
rwebdb 07-July-2010
More metadata. This time on codes used by some variables and the descriptions of those codes. And yet another illustration that you don’t just mashup data files like IPEDS. There are no shortcuts.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, July 7, 2010 8:00 am | Comments Off
rwebdb – 30-June-2010
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 | Comments Off
rwebdb – Housekeeping
Sometimes moving forward requires a step backwards.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, June 23, 2010 9:48 am | Comments Off
rwebdb – Looking Ahead
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
rwebdb 11-June-2010
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
rworld 09-June-2010
On purple people eaters, purple people-eaters, purple-people eaters, and sovereign debt.
rworld | Gary Lewis, June 9, 2010 5:00 pm | Comments Off
rwebdb – Questions About IPEDS
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
rwebdb 08-June-2010
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
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