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Using folk motifs to write stories of your own

Using folk motifs to write stories of your own

As a child, I drank in folktales in all colors, from the olive book of fairy tales to the crimson and lilac books. And then, I tried rustling through the coats in our large wooden wardrobe to find Narnia, or sweeping

Cee January 2018March 2018 Data, Worldwide 1 Comment Read more

How to know if you should go to library school

How to know if you should go to library school

Are you thinking about applying to library school? Wondering how to get into the field? I’m summarizing some of the advice I’ve passed along to mentees and prospective students here, with tips on places to look for more on libraryland.

Cee June 2017January 2018 Data, Library, USA No Comments Read more

Visualize America with SimplyMap

Visualize America with SimplyMap

In my continuing series of cheesy walk-throughs of online data tools, there’s SimplyMap! My college subscribes, so you can’t easily play with it unless you’re one of the digitally lucky. However…  in the interests of education, I’ll point out some fun

Cee September 2016January 2018 Data, Economics & Class, USA No Comments Read more

Use the census to scope out potential partners

Use the census to scope out potential partners

I’ve talked about using the US census to estimate your dating options in America, in Maine, and in selected US cities. If you’d like to explore your own area, here’s how to get started: 1) Set up your account and use

Cee August 2016January 2018 Data, Gender, Technology, USA No Comments Read more

Where are all the single people in Maine?

Where are all the single people in Maine?

“…Before we were serious,” I admitted to my boyfriend, “I was scoping out dates using the census. And my odds weren’t good. There were only like 100 eligible guys in our area of Maine.” “Yeah, but my odds were even

Cee January 2016January 2018 Data, Gender, Humor, USA 4 Comments Read more

Where are all the single people in America?

Where are all the single people in America?

A few months ago, I took my bike in for repairs to a local business, where the friendly and tattooed owner began chatting me up. Filling out forms extremely slowly, he told me all about his businesses, his son’s private

Cee January 2016January 2018 Data, Gender, Humor, USA 2 Comments Read more

Critical thinking and data visualizations

Critical thinking and data visualizations

I’ve added RSS feeds from blogs about librarians, data, and data visualization to Feedly recently, which I was going through the other evening. When I came across this particular picture, though, I paused. What do you notice about it?

Cee April 2015January 2018 Data, Technology, Worldwide 2 Comments Read more

Text mining newspaper articles

Text mining newspaper articles

Earlier this semester, I met with a student looking for ways to easily analyze news articles and social media. For anonymity purposes, we’ll say that Anna* was researching girl scout cookies*. Everyone loves Samoas, am I right? Now some librarians look up

Cee April 2015February 2018 Data, Library, Technology No Comments Read more

How much money do librarians actually make?

How much money do librarians actually make?

I’ve spent a little time playing with infographics recently. Infogr.am is a pretty user-friendly service that let me pull together the graphic on young librarians below. The data and quotes are from Library Journal, my survey of recent MLS grads, and the Bureau of

Cee March 2015January 2018 Data, Economics & Class, Library No Comments Read more

Use Google to explore social trends

Use Google to explore social trends

Google loves data. I’ve reviewed Google nGrams before; built on top of their massive project to scan published books, it’s a way to study how our written culture changes over time. Below, I’ll cover a few more interesting tools, which I hope will be fun

Cee January 2015January 2018 Data, Technology, USA No Comments Read more
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