Quantitative data analysis: really kinky stuff or just standard deviation?

The following notes are made from Ch11, Analysing Quantitative Data, Tim Philips, in Social Research Methods: an Australian perspective. (Ed) Maggie Walter. Oxford UP, South Melbourne, 2006 (2008).
This is a very useful chapter if you need help in establishing a way of talking about the datasets. It uses examples that are almost exactly the same [...]

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a short lesson in qualitative research

Short, because I need to be writing notes on the quantitative textbook chapter.
This is a lesson i learned over the past weekend. In short, i got too close to my data. again. oh the pain. it was like pulling teeth with tentpegs. The lit review reared up and threatened to take over my whole life, [...]

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readings for week 4 57146

second boring post!
Hodge, G. 2000, ‘Knowledge Organization Systems: An Overview’, in Systems of
Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority
Files, Digital Library Federation, viewed 14 July 2008.
<http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/contents.html>.
Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. 2002, ‘Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata’,
in, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web [online], 2nd edn,
O’Reilly, Cambridge, Mass., p. Chapter 9 Sections 9.1 – [...]

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Reading for week 5 57146

Warning: boring post!
Readings for Week 5
Anderson, J.D. & Pérez-Carballo, J. 2001, ‘The nature of indexing: how humans and machines analyze messages and texts for retrieval. Part I: Research, and the nature of human indexing’, Information Processing and Management, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 231-254 Particularly Sections 4 – 7
Mai, J.-E. 2005, ‘Analysis in [...]

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Ethics and research….hmm

Text book Exercise 3.1
What measures can researchers put in place to empower respondents?
➢    Give adequate time and information to make an informed decision about participation (work this into the Project Plan)
➢    Give participants the right to:
o    refuse participation
o    withdraw participation at any time
o    refuse any question
➢    Protection from acts which might cause harm or discomfort [...]

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Epiphany!

I know i shouldn’t really encourage such a subjective bar to set for blog posts, especially given my awol-ness of late, but this morning in the shower i had an idea.
I’ve signed up for a toolkit workshop at QueenSt Studios, a little artist run venture which supports various artists and performance makers by offering studio [...]

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Design Journal #1 Getty images

Using March Chignell’s 4 criteria for usability to evaluate the getty images website. I’m looking for royalty-free images.
First impressions and a log:
Appears to be a fairly easy to use site, especially for an experienced/ web literate user. Simple bar menu at the top with pop-up menu made getting to the royalty free images quick and [...]

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Starting afresh

And wondering how i can ever explain this recent absence, and sudden about-turn.
Nevermind. I’m getting all vocational and turning towards the libraries for some kind of career-like thing. And currently boggling at the reading lists. It’s funny how these subjects in information management have such long and intense readings, yet seem to require such a [...]

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video project

I am trying to consider a place for these videos. 
Perhaps I should just make them and put them up on youtube – and once I’ve collated the videos from yourvid then there’ll be something interesting to do with them next. 
I’m working with Cary Peppermint’s idea of network art: 
“Network art forces new models upon the idea [...]

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development

Developing the new idea:
New tangent/ set of parameters
Create a set of atmospheres to improvise with in a bodyweather aesthetic.
Typically, groundwork exercises are broken up into focus points of 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes. These aren’t set in stone, but the practice of exploring a exercise for a set amount of time can [...]

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