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Data Visualization Camp Instructional Materials (2017-18), Kristin Briney

UWM Libraries Instructional Materials

These materials are from the 2017 Data Camp on data visualization held at UWM Libraries. The one-hour workshop covers how to chose the right chart for your data and how to streamline that chart to best tell your story. The materials work for both librarians and members of the university community. Materials include a presentation file (with supplemental notes), one informational handout, and two activity handouts. Please refer to the book [Evergreen, S. D. H. (2017). Effective data visualization: The right chart for the right data. SAGE Publications.] for background information for this workshop.

Materials from the 2018 Data Visualization …

Institutional, Funder, And Journal Data Policies, Kristin Briney, Abigail Goben, Lisa Zilinski

UWM Libraries Other Staff Publications

Data curation exists within a larger framework of laws and policies covering topics like copyright and data retention. These obligations must be considered in order to properly care for data as it is being created and preserved. While laws may transition slowly, the policies applying to research data by funding bodies, institutions, and journals have seen significant change since the turn of the century. These policies have directly impacted the practices of researchers and prompted the creation of data curation services by many libraries in partnership with their larger institutions. This chapter examines three important categories of policies, primarily covered …