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Making Sense Of Online Public Health Debates With Visual Analytics Systems, Anton Ninkov
Making Sense Of Online Public Health Debates With Visual Analytics Systems, Anton Ninkov
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Online debates occur frequently and on a wide variety of topics. Particularly, online debates about various public health topics (e.g., vaccines, statins, cannabis, dieting plans) are prevalent in today’s society. These debates are important because of the real-world implications they can have on public health. Therefore, it is important for public health stakeholders (i.e., those with a vested interest in public health) and the general public to have the ability to make sense of these debates quickly and effectively. This dissertation investigates ways of enabling sense-making of these debates with the use of visual analytics systems (VASes). VASes are computational …
Data Rescue & Curation Best Practices Guide, Ocul Data Community (Odc) Data Rescue Group
Data Rescue & Curation Best Practices Guide, Ocul Data Community (Odc) Data Rescue Group
Western Libraries Publications
he aim of the Data Rescue & Curation Best Practices Guide is to provide an accessible and hands-on approach to handling data rescue and digital curation of at-risk data for use in secondary research. We provide a set of examples and workflows for addressing common challenges with social science survey data that can be applied to other social and behavioural research data. The goal of this guide and set of workflows presented is to improve librarians’ and data curators’ skills in providing access to high-quality, well-documented, and reusable research data. The aspects of data curation that are addressed throughout this …