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Are you overwhelmed by the amount of news that is available? After finding a news source that you trust, have you ever tried to click on an article and received a popup that said: “Sorry, you have reached your article limit this month?” The DePaul University Library is here to
We are concluding our Love Data Week series at the DePaul University Library with today’s topic: We are Data. As we have seen this week, there are a multitude of ethical, technical, and privacy issues surrounding data and we have only skimmed the tip of the iceberg. Today we are
We are continuing our Love Data Week series at the DePaul University Library with today’s topic: Connected Conversations. We live in an age marked by a data deluge: where data is being collected everywhere, at all times, in almost every country, by every type of organization imaginable. This article: “Fighting
We are continuing our Love Data Week series at the DePaul University Library with today’s topic: Telling Stories with Data. The most compelling stories often have a significant insight or breakthrough because of data analysis and/or a data visualization presenting data in a way that helps us to understand and
Today is the kickoff of Love Data Week during which the DePaul University Library will be joining universities around the world to celebrate data and dialogue about data-related topics. This year’s theme is Data Stories and today we will be talking about Stories about Data. Data makes news regularly; not
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” -Zora Neale Hurston To the cynic, Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday meant to artificially express love through one’s wallet; the romantic chooses to view Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to celebrate love. The Data Librarian, however, sees the entire
The DePaul University Library is running a 30-day trial of a new database product called Statista. Statista is a statistics portal and contains information on over 80,000 topics compiled from more than 18,000 data sources. From the Statista website: Our data sources include market research reports, such as the Ipsos
The DePaul University Library subscribes to GrantForward, a database containing funding opportunites for research. Students and faculty can use GrantForward to find scholarships, internships, and grants as well as other forms of national and international financial support across academic disciplines including social sciences and humanities. The database includes over 9,000 funding sponsors,
Have you written a research paper that used ICPSR data? If you are a current DePaul undergraduate or master’s student or alumni who graduated after spring quarter 2017, you can submit your paper to the ICPSR Research Paper Competition for the chance to win a $1,000 award for first place
If you have ever wanted to go out to eat in Chicago or other city, chances are you used Yelp to do one or more of the following: find a restaurant, look at the star ratings, read reviews so you know what to order, checked out whether or not there