I wrote last month about making spreadsheets more accessible and reusable, and I want to continue in the theme this month by discussing accessibility of scientific figures. I don’t have capacity in this blog post to do justice to the … Continue reading
It’s been two years since I posted about my 2020 US COVID daily fatalities handwoven visualization. I have had many interesting conversations about that piece (for examples, see here) and it’s one of my handmade projects for which I am … Continue reading
This post is a review of a pair of related books, The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge and The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge, both by Manuel Lima. I ran across these on a list of … Continue reading
Year 3 of this pandemic is quickly approaching and one might think we’d be getting used to being in these “unprecedented times.” And yet the last several months have been extra challenging for me, particularly as a parent of small … Continue reading
A side effect of being a data specialist-by-day and a crafter-by-night, is that the two sometimes combine. This leads to things like the bad passwords dress and the women in science dress, but more recently, I’ve been dabbling in data … Continue reading
Continuing in my pandemic reading of data books, next up is “How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information” by Alberto Cairo. (I didn’t plan to be a predominately book review blog, but I need a way to channel the … 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".