Covid-19 Web Archiving at uOttawa

This blog post is about my journey to capture websites and tweets in Twitter around the Covid-19 pandemic mostly at uOttawa but few in the capital region.

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Certified ScrumMaster Workshop

I took two-days Certified ScrumMaster workshop offered by Agile Relief Consulting in January 2020. This blog post is about my thoughts around project management in general, what I learned from the workshop, and how I could apply to my daily work.

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(Hidden) research data analysis processes

This blog post is about my trial and error on the data analysis for research collaboration with Ayoung Yoon, Assistant Professor at IUPUI. I would like to share how I arrived to choose a statistical method, open source tool, and its package which wasn't mentioned in the publication.

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Twitter preservation and replicable research

This blog post is about my journey to learning a new tool called twarc for Twitter preservation by replicating research conducted by Nick Ruest and Ian Milligan with new Twitter datasets (Open Access Week 2019).

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Wikimania 2019 Learning Days

I do believe that nothing can be done alone. I wanted to get involved in the open knowledge movement by sharing and collaborating with many people, beyond my individual contribution to Wikimedia projects. This blog post is about my participation in the Learning Days at Wikimania 2019 which helped me plan a datathon event on the community level in the future.

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OpenAPC - from Raw to Meaningful

This blog post is about the processes and tools that I took in order to import, tidy, transform, visualize and communicate the APC (Article Processing Charge) datasets accumulated since 2010 at my current institution. I would like to share them to be transparent and reproducible, especially to generate an internal report.

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Datasets, Library, and Artificial Intelligence

This blog post is about my participation in the workshop on Machine Learning in the Presence of Class Imbalance organized by Fields Centre of Quantitative Modelling and Analysis at Carleton University on June 21, 2019. I would like to summarize what I learned and my thoughts on artificial intelligence at an academic library setting.

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Web as data and web scraping tools

The World Wide Web has become a source of data and information for daily activities and scientific research. There are several studies where their datasets were gathered from the Web. In this blog post, I would like to share two web scraping tools that I found useful for my daily work and research.

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Archives Unleashed Datathon @Washington

I would like to share my participation in the Archives Unleashed Datathon #Washington held from March 21 to March 22, 2019 at the Gelman Library, George Washington University. It was an amazing opportunity for me to learn new tools, consider how to use the Archives Unleashed Toolkit in the curation, and explore how researchers would use web collections to answer their research questions.

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What I learned from Code4Lib 2019

I attended the Code4Lib 2019 and this posting is about what I learned from the conference, especially on digital curation and preservation. There were amazing presentations on machine learning, accessibility, and etc., but I would like to reflect on this topic as this is one of my current projects at uOttawa Library.

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Research data management with RStudio

This post is about how I used RStudio for my recent study regarding research data management (RDM). I am learning how to effectively manage my datasets and applying RDM concepts to my research practice. RDM covers from planning to preservation and I thought that RStudio could be easily integrated within RDM.

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Tools I used to start my blog

This is my very first blog posting. I’d like to talk about tools I used to start my blog.

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