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Data and Goliath
If you don’t keep up with privacy issues, this is the book you should read to catch up. Data and Goliath : the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier, New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] ©2015. And here are a couple of quick overviews of […]
The Rise of the Chief Data Officer
More and more federal government agencies are getting a “chief data officer” (CDO). NextGov interviewed five recently appointed agency CDOs. These are very brief overviews of the vast amount of data being managed by the government (the CDO for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notes that they are adding about a billion records […]
Data, Data, Data.
As a data librarian since the mid-1980s, I have watched the field expand and bourgeon with a sense of giddy delight. A good friend who has been a data librarian longer than I have once said he would retire when children started saying that wanted to grow up to be data librarians. Well, that time […]
The ProPublica Data Store
ProPublica, the independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, announced today the launching of “the ProPublica Data Store.” Introducing the ProPublica Data Store, by Scott Klein and Ryann Grochowski Jones, ProPublica (Feb. 26, 2014). The ProPublica Data Store. The store includes links to open government data and links to raw, as-is […]
PLOS’ New Data Policy: Public Access to Data
Today the Public Library of Science (PLOS) revised its already-strong data policy. As of March 3, 2014, authors in all PLOS journals will be required to provide a Data Availability Statement. Additionally, all underlying data must be publicly available in 1 of 3 places: the body of the manuscript, in the supporting information, or in […]
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