Category: Library and Information Science
Well…, the banner and the display are a bit busy, but I am an educator at heart and wanted to cram too much information into one place! I came across the “Poem in your pocket” idea at Taft College Library…
A few weeks ago my supervisor asked if I would like to do a display for one side of our A-frame in the library. I assumed he meant March so I started planning for Women’s History Month. I solicited the…
While Legal Services of Greater Miami no longer comes to the Key West Public Library for clinics, they do maintain a kiosk here to apply for legal services. Recently, patrons have come in to the library but we were unable…
As I neared my final semester this past May, with only one course to take, I decided that the Visualizing Big Data course simply didn’t give me enough of a Statistics refresher. So what did I do? I decided to…
This week came and went too quickly. I had several projects due this weekend, yet from the time I awoke Wednesday morning (the day after election day 2016), I found it difficult to concentrate and I began to believe I…
“Graceless, Is there a powder to erase this? Is it dissolvable and tasteless? You can’t imagine how I hate this Graceless I’m trying, but I’m graceless Don’t have the sunny side to face this I am invisible and weightless You…
R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People (official video). Category: Music. License: Standard YouTube License. Music in this video: Learn more Listen ad-free with YouTube Premium . Song: Shiny Happy People . Artist: R.E.M. Licensed by: UMG (on behalf of Concord Records); UMPG Publishing, UBEM,…
This week we are delving deeper into R and using ggplot. For me, the interesting importance of ggplot, is its relationship to the Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkins, published in 1999. I once found the study of Linguistics fascinating and…
via Daily Prompt: Giant I am not sure what to say about Giant, except perhaps that sometimes I let my giant ego get the better of me and stoop to commenting on political posts on Facebook. I know it is…
The assignment in Project 2 is to return to the Florida Organization File and using some of the new tools create three visualizations that say something about the data. Returning to Project 1 to remind myself of what I learned…