Category: Data
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Librarians and teachers amongst the heaviest users of AI – The 2025 AI Index Report
OK, that's a clickbait title, but only a little. They're actually amongst the heaviest users of Claude, according to Anthropic (PDF), via the 2025 AI Index Report from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI. The report itself is a 456-page PDF, so do start with the key takeaways, but then either search for specific words of…
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Qualitative Data in the News
It seems a rarity, but I have two really interesting sites open in my browser talking about qualitative data in the relatively current environment. The first, Pandemic Journaling Project Archive Opens for Research, is notable because it fills a big gap. As the article notes, “There are several large quantitative surveys in the social sciences…
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Vaccine Injury Support Program – Statistics – not working in Wayback?
I've been using Visualping.io to watch for changes on the Vaccine Injury Support Program – Statistics page since I became aware of it, and I thought I was sending changes to the Wayback Machine as well, but after today's update I realized that when I visit the snapshot on Wayback, the captured page claims "No…
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Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data Liberation Project
Not to be confused with Canada's Data Liberation Initiative, Jeremy Singer-Vine is spending his time on the Data Liberation Project, "an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest." There's not yet a lot to look at there, but there's plenty in the pipeline. I just attended a…
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Library Futures Funtime Book Talk w/Chokepoint Capitalism and Data Cartels
On November 17, I was able to attend most of an amazing book talk sponsored by Library Futures. It was with the authors of two timely books, Chokepoint Capitalism (Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow), and Data Cartels (Sarah Lamdan). You can, and should, watch the entire recording! In Chokepoint Capitalism, "by analyzing book publishing and…
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Intellectual and unreasonable – AI and male librarians
I've been poking a bit at the multitude of AI image-generation tools, and just ran across this tool that allows one to do a little exploring of the algorithmic bias that's pretty much baked-in, but otherwise not really visible. I learned about it via this article in Vice, and thanks to @ResearchBuzz. Here's what I…
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Visualizing Qualitative Data
A big part of my job these days is supporting campus researchers in their use of NVivo, a tool for analyzing qualitative data. While NVivo does offer some data visualization options, in my workshops I describe it as, "Microsoft Office-level". In other words, not terribly sophisticated, and that's fine. But I'm always keen to see…
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Historical COVID-19 R-Values for Alberta charted
Last month, I posted about how a patron request prompted me to collect the historical COVID-19 R-values for Alberta. That data is available on a public Google Sheet, but I had meant to throw up a chart as well. The other day I was reminded about Datawrapper, so I used that to make this: Hopefully…