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Some thoughts on Research and Indigenous Librarianship
A couple of weeks ago I read an excellent article, Research and Indigenous Librarianship in Canada, and I'd like to recommend it to you. I think it's more about understanding the implications of undergoing research with or about Indigenous Peoples than it is about doing so in a library setting, but that's great, because it
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Quick and Dirty Data Viz of Canadian Federal Candidates
A couple of months ago I posted about using Flourish to build a bar chart race data visualization. Shortly after that Flourish had another blog post highlighting all the different ways their site could be used to visualize election data, and I've had it bookmarked waiting for another opportunity to experiment with the service. Earlier
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11 Best Web Scraping Tools to Extract Online Data
Hongkiat just posted a list of the 10 Best Web Scraping Tools to Extract Online Data (ht ResearchBuzz). I've tried a few of them, but now have more to explore. I was really surprised that Octoparse wasn't on their list. I've had some really good success with it before, and it definitely deserves to be
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Thoughts on building my first bar chart race with Flourish
If you're on social media you've probably seen a bunch of bar chart races pop up in the past couple of weeks. The folks at Flourish have a good post chronicling the "new" phenomenon. Even better, Flourish created a template which makes it pretty easy to build your own, so that's what I did. Here