iSchool Capstone

Data Skills Workshops for Librarians

Project tags:

data science & visualization

information literacy

Project poster

As technology continues to integrate into everyday life, data is becoming a normal part of library staff workflows. However, the technical skills needed to efficiently use this valuable data are not necessarily a part of current library staff training. To help fill this skill gap, two 1.5-hour workshops on Tidy Data and the tool OpenRefine and plans for a third workshop on Python were developed. These workshops introduce best practices for structuring and cleaning data in spreadsheets for further analysis. Using skills learned in these workshops, library staff can work with data more efficiently and finish projects faster and easier.

Project participants:

Karalyn Ostler

MLIS

Video Link :

https://uw.voicethread.com/share/14504193/