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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…
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Considering Apple News+? Don’t forget to check your local library first!
I guess I'll wait to see what TV+ brings later before declaring yesterday's Apple event a total yawner, but it did remind me to check out Flipster and Browzine again before spending any time and money on News+. What are Flipster and Browzine, you ask? They're digital magazine and journal platforms that you might want…
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Review: A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing
We've been doing a lot of talking about Data Management Plans at MPOW, and I recently came across the following article from PLOS One: A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing. In it, the authors take a look at 315 research projects that had been funded by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee…