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Elizabeth E Charles
January 26, 2022 3:34 PM
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As the University of California San Diego’s inaugural chief privacy officer, I’m responsible for ensuring that the university handles all personal data — whether student, employee or research data — responsibly and ethically. We live in a new world where Big Data and data-driven and data-informed decisions influence everything, and our data practices have a significant impact on privacy in ways they didn’t just 10 years ago.
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Elizabeth E Charles
June 24, 2021 4:32 PM
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The classic book “How to Lie With Statistics,” first published in 1954, is probably the biggest bestseller of all time on how to make sense of numbers. But it has left a troubling legacy—leading to a distrust of all kinds of statistics, even ones that can help make sense of things like today’s global pandemic.  That’s the argument made by Tim Harford, an economist and BBC journalist. And his research shows that the author of “How to Lie With Statistics,” Darrell Huff, took steps to use his arguments to actively obscure rather than to inform. “
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Elizabeth E Charles
October 10, 2020 7:04 PM
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Participation in democracy, in today’s digital and datafied society, requires the development of a series of transversal skills, which should be fostered in higher education (HE) through critically oriented pedagogies that interweave technical data skills and practices together with information and media literacies. If students are to navigate the turbulent waters of data and algorithms, then data literacies must be featured in academic development programmes, thereby enabling HE to lead in the development of approaches to understanding and analysing data, in order to foster reflection on how data are constructed and operationalised across societies, and provide opportunities to learn from the analysis of data from a range of sources. The key strategy proposed is to adopt the use of open data as open educational resources in the context of problem and research-based learning activities. This paper introduces a conceptual analysis including an integrative overview of relevant literature, to provide a landscape perspective to support the development of academic training and curriculum design programmes in HE to contribute to civic participation and to the promotion of social justice.Â
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 22, 2019 7:36 PM
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Conference on Learning Information Literacy across the Globe https://informationliteracy.eu/conference/ 10.5.2019 Frankfurt am Main #LILG_2019 #biblioVerifica #crowdSearcher #iloOER
The slides describes the BiblioVerifica blog, which is an attempt by librarians to fight misinformation by using media and data literacy, engaging citizens as awareness users of the social networks, chats and blogs. Biblioverifica aims to be a public engagement project based on information literacy practices, implementing tips and tricks about search tools, reliable sources, verification strategies. This non-profit initiative promotes fact-checking based on open resources as data, journals, tools, etc. contact https://economia.uniroma2.it/biblioteca/lilg_2019/
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 4, 2018 6:14 AM
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Have you ever felt lost when looking for material on Research Data Management? This toolkit aims to support you by signposting resources from a wide range of websites and organisations, sorted by topic and audience. Follow your pathway below or browse the website using the research data lifecycle chart.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 14, 2018 10:47 AM
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It's often said that data is the new world currency, and the web is the exchange bureau through which it's traded. As consumers, we're positively swimming in data; it's everywhere from labels on food packaging design to World Health Organisation reports. As a result, for the designer it's becoming increasingly difficult to present data in a way that stands out from the mass of competing data streams.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 15, 2018 6:51 AM
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Having access to data is a first step. Data is not an end in itself. Data can be used in different ways and for different purposes. Data can also be available with different licences, formats and quality.
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Elizabeth E Charles
from Learning & Technology News
December 26, 2017 12:38 PM
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Does your data tell a story and can you visualize it? We look at the history and thought processes behind data visualization and successful infographics.
Via Nik Peachey
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 27, 2017 3:54 PM
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There is a project, Supporting Librarians in Adding Data Literacy Skills to Information Literacy Instruction, which is funded by the (US) Institute of Museum and Library Services 2015-2017, which has a number of useful resources on its website. The goal is "to develop data and statistical literacy skills so librarians can better support critical comprehension skills in their students". The co-investogators in the project are Kristin Fontichiaro and Jo Angela Oehrli (university of Michigan). One resource is their online book, Creating Data Literate Students, with chapters authored by various people.
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Elizabeth E Charles
September 21, 2016 12:02 PM
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If you’re data illiterate, there’s a good chance that your designs—based on the data you don’t understand—will be rubbish.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 17, 2014 5:49 AM
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Can we really measure happiness? How does educational attainment vary across ZIP codes? What does math have to do with charity? Which team has the better athletes, Yankees or Red Sox? These are
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 30, 2021 1:15 PM
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A free online webinar on 16 August 2021 at 1pm US Central time (which is, for example, 7pm UK time) is Considering Data Literacy Using Kuhlthau's Information Search Process: Implications for Librarians and Data Providers, presented by Charissa Jefferson, Kristin Fontichiaro, Katrina Stierholz, and Lynette Hoelter and sponsored by the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. "This panel discusses uses of Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP) to illustrate ways that librarians can assist students and collaborate with data providers to improve the data search process. Librarians and data providers share similar data literacy goals, and this panel pools the expertise of both groups to focus on strategies and interventions that support novice researchers.
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Elizabeth E Charles
November 3, 2020 7:07 PM
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Data Literacy Playground is an online space where visitors can use, interact with, and understand the benefits and issues of using and sharing data so that they can make informed choices about data sharing and understand the data shared with them.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 13, 2020 3:51 PM
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There is a belief that younger people are fully engaged with the digital world. But I am currently leading a project exploring people’s knowledge and use of online data, and the preliminary findings from our research has found that data literacy is not uniformly high among younger people, as is often assumed. Instead, some young people have very low levels of data literacy.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 16, 2019 6:03 AM
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In this webinar organised by LIBER’s Research Data Management Working Group, Kathleen Gregory presented an overview of recent research investigating how researchers and librarians engage in practices of finding, understanding and reusing research data. She provided some tips for finding research data and an opportunity for attendees to consider what this research means for developing services at their own organizations.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 14, 2018 10:45 AM
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Microsoft consulted data scientists and the companies that employ them to identify the core skills they need to be successful. This informed the curriculum used to teach key functional and technical skills, combining highly rated online courses with hands-on labs, concluding in a final capstone project.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 15, 2018 6:10 AM
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Digital society demands of its citizens data literacy, developed for competitive advantage and agility. Data and analytics leaders must follow the example of English as a Second Language (ESL) and treat information as the new second language of business, government, communities and our lives.
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 1, 2017 7:39 AM
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The programme of the July 2017 CILIP conference with links to all the presentations.
Download a printable PDF version of the programme Room location map for University Place Wednesday 5 July 08:15 Registration, refreshments and exhibition (Exhibition Hall) 09:45 Welcome : Nick Poole, Chief Executive Officer, CILIP (Theatre B) 10:00 Keynote: Dr Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress (Theatre B) 10:45 Refreshments and exhibition (Exhibition Hall)
11:25 Marketing Workshop Using Data and Information Seminar …
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Belle Balace
May 25, 2017 8:49 AM
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A step-by-step tutorial on how to use Visme's free drag-and-drop pictograph maker and icon array tool to visualize percentages and statistics.
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Elizabeth E Charles
from Educational Technology News
November 12, 2016 10:50 AM
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"If you think data—in education, or any field—is cut and dry, think again. Working with data in the classroom, especially, can be either exhausting or exhilarating—depending on your fitness level. Data can be big, but also quite small. It’s often quantitative, but is increasingly qualitative."
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Elizabeth E Charles
from Big Data + Libraries
January 2, 2017 1:05 PM
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Here we ask you to identify which tool was used to produce the following 18 charts: 4 were done with R, 3 with SPSS, 5 with Excel, 2 with Tableau, 1 with Matla…
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