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May 16th, 2012 - 1:01 am § in Data Sources, Data Visualizations, Humanities

Which of NPR’s top 100 science fiction and fantasy books should you read?

  Reading is a very useful skill, and it is even more useful to enjoy it. Because nearly everything involves reading it is important to enjoy it. One can learn a lot about anything by simply picking up a book or opening a webpage and reading. But because it is forced, many people don’t en[...]

September 22nd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Sources

Are We Still Reading?

I probably spend more time thinking about, looking for, and working on the Thursday data source IGaDs than the other four days put together.  Data is cool and it’s a huge part of just about every institution’s conversation today.  The term, data-driven decision making, has almost becom[...]