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 | 
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On triangulation and techniques to build metadata and confidence in the data.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, May 29, 2010 8:36 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
How many of the 20,000 institutions represented in the 25 years of IPEDS data appear throughout the time series? And how many appear infrequently? Answers to these questions make an initial design decision possible and provide an opportunity to illustrate the use of an SVG data visualization.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, May 25, 2010 10:59 am | Comments Off
Dynamic query programs can significantly improve management of complex datasets. Here’s a second example that illustrates the benefits.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, May 20, 2010 8:55 am | Comments Off
In a data warehouse, the design effort is all about ease-of-use. Forget elegant data structures; it must first and foremost be simple to use.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, May 19, 2010 7:55 am | Comments Off
Data about the data (metadata) is essential for managing a data project of any complexity.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, May 14, 2010 9:07 am | Comments Off
It begins … the long but absolutely essential task of living in data long enough to recognize both its warts and its beauty.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, May 12, 2010 3:34 pm | Comments Off
“Poor neighborhoods around the world embrace a surprising idea: incredibly low-priced private schools.”
Bookmarks | Gary Lewis, May 9, 2010 9:57 am | Comments Off
Character encodings, Unicode, and how I tripped on smart quotes and curly apostrophes.
data sources, rwebdb | Gary Lewis, May 7, 2010 6:10 pm | Comments Off
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