My very first viral tweet, in fact. It turns out that many other people have strong feeling date formats. There is one correct way to write a date and it's YYYY-MM-DD. https://t.co/HcpEUblwCE — Kristin Briney (@KristinBriney) July 3, 2018 I … Continue reading
I mentioned in a post a few months ago that I started doing research in the area of learning analytics, libraries, privacy, and data management. I’m happy to report that my first publication to come out of this work went … Continue reading
I’m starting to do more work in the area of data visualization, as evidenced by my most recent publication and my somewhat periodic Twitter rants against pie charts. While I’ve already discussed one of my favorite visualization resources on the … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the difference between privacy and confidentiality. This issue surfaces in libraries around handling patron data (relevant to my current line of research) but also more generally in how researchers handle human subjects data. … Continue reading
I mentioned way back in December that I fell down a research rabbit hole at the end of 2017 but I never said what that rabbit hole was: it’s about data management and library learning analytics. I’m not quite ready … Continue reading
Today on the blog, I’m going to talk about the difference between a bar chart (right-left bars) and a column chart (up-down bars). For many, the difference seems negligible — simply the direction of the bars — but the choice … Continue reading
My name is Kristin Briney and I love research data. Follow my adventures with data here or contact me with questions.
My third book, "The Research Data Management Workbook".
My second book, "Managing Data for Patron Privacy," co-authored with Becky Yoose.
My first book, "Data Management for Researchers".