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2018

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Analytics

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Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Special Issue: Indices For The Betterment Of The Public, Vincent Charles, Ali Emrouznejad, Michael P. Johnson Jr. Oct 2018

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Special Issue: Indices For The Betterment Of The Public, Vincent Charles, Ali Emrouznejad, Michael P. Johnson Jr.

Michael P. Johnson

Over the years, the quest for a better society has led to the birth of a variety of composite indices of development, from the gross domestic product to the happiness index. These indices usually integrate various social, cultural, psychological, and political aspects and are considered of vital importance for evaluating a country's level of development and for assessing the impact of policy specially in public sector. Overall, they consist of numerical measures that describe the well-being of both the individual and the society as a whole. 

The Special Issue of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences encourages original research articles of high quality …

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Data Visualization: Using Tableau To Analyze Library Services And Value, Nicole Colello, Jennifer L. Murray Jul 2018

Data Visualization: Using Tableau To Analyze Library Services And Value, Nicole Colello, Jennifer L. Murray

Jennifer Murray

No abstract provided.

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Visualizing Library Data, Nicole Colello, Jennifer L. Murray Jul 2018

Visualizing Library Data, Nicole Colello, Jennifer L. Murray

Jennifer Murray

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Building Library Analytics - With A Little Help From Your Friends In Institutional Research, Jennifer L. Murray Jul 2018

Building Library Analytics - With A Little Help From Your Friends In Institutional Research, Jennifer L. Murray

Jennifer Murray

Modern ILS's produce a wealth of data, that properly blended and analyzed, would add value to the Library mission. The challenge is that while Librarians have the data and understand the mission we lack the analytics tools and skillset necessary to extract actionable intelligence. It simply isn't one of our core competencies . Fortunately college campuses do have offices that have the tools and skillsets necessary to analyze our data; Institutional Research. This presentation will explore how the University at Buffalo Libraries partnered with its campus' Institutional Research office on an analytics initiative using their visualization platform: Tableau.

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Using Tableau For Ub Library Services, Nicole Colello, Jennifer L. Murray Jul 2018

Using Tableau For Ub Library Services, Nicole Colello, Jennifer L. Murray

Jennifer Murray

No abstract provided.

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Emerging Trends And New Frontiers In Community Operational Research, Michael P. Johnson Jr., Gerald Midgley, George Chichirau Jul 2018

Emerging Trends And New Frontiers In Community Operational Research, Michael P. Johnson Jr., Gerald Midgley, George Chichirau

Michael P. Johnson

Community operational research (Community OR), and its disciplinary relation, community-based operations research, has an increasingly high profile within multiple domains that benefit from empirical and analytic approaches to problem solving. These domains are primarily concentrated within nonprofit services and local development. However, there are many other disciplinary and application areas for which novel applications and extensions of COR could generate valuable insights. This paper identifies a number of these, distinguishing between ‘emerging trends’ (mostly in well-studied areas of operations research, management science and analytics) and ‘new frontiers’, which can be found in traditions not commonly oriented towards empirical and analytic …

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