Inexpensive courses in “data journalism”
This may be of interest to those government information specialists who also have an interest in or responsibility for data. Dave Stanton, creator of For Journalism is developing inexpensive online courses in data science, statistics, mapping, charting, and in using specific tools such as Ruby on Rails and Python. Although explicitly aimed at journalists, the […]
Report on Wasteful Spending by the Federal Government speciously targets NTIS
I was over at Sabrina Pacifici’s ever-informative bespacific.com blog (subscribe, you’ll be glad you did!) to read about e-govt and public access during the last government shutdown and happened to see another post about Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OKLA) latest “Report on Wasteful Spending by the Federal Government.” While I haven’t read the “report” in its entirety, […]
Malamud to propose an Edicts of Government Amendment
[UPDATE 1/14/14: the hearing including Carl Malamud’s testimony is now available vis CSPAN. JRJ] Carl Malamud will be testifying at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Scope of Copyright Protection On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 10AM. Hi testimony will be on the subject of Edicts of Government, including copyright assertions over state laws and federally-mandated public […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report 1/12/2014
Last week was busy at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. FEATURED DATABASE Today’s featured database was suggested by Annie Moots, the volunteer for Missouri: Missouri Appellate Courts and Missouri Supreme Court Opinions (http://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=12086&dist=Opinions) This database contains the full-text opinions, including concurring and dissenting opinions, of the Missouri Eastern, Western, and Southern Districts Courts of Appeals […]
Writer’s Guide to Government Information: Creative Promotion
I (Daniel) have a dream of making government information relevant to people’s lives regardless of walk of life. I think it is a dream many government information specialists/documents librarians share. In making government information relevant to people we need to answer the question in their minds – “What’s in it for me?” If we can answer that […]