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A Great Example Why Big Data is Becoming Hugely Important

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“Barack Obama may have comfortably won re-election in the electoral college, and squeaked a victory in the popular vote. But here is the absolute, undoubted winner of this election: Nate Silver and big data.”

via Triumph of the Nerds: Nate Silver Wins in 50 States.

Nate Silver is a statistician and political blogger (FiveThirtyEight – Nate Silver’s Political Calculus) for The New York Times. His statistical forecasts for the 2012 American Presidential Election were amazingly accurate and are a great case study for validating the importance and value of big data.

The League of Extraordinary Librarians: SLJ’s latest tech survey shows that media specialists are leading the way – The Digital Shift

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“Meet the latest tech superheroes: school librarians. According to School Library Journal’s 2012 School Technology Survey, media specialists are leading the charge to bring new media, mobile devices, social apps, and web-based technologies into our nation’s classrooms.”

via The League of Extraordinary Librarians: SLJ’s latest tech survey shows that media specialists are leading the way – The Digital Shift.

Fostering Female Technology Leadership in Libraries – The Digital Shift

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Fostering Female Technology Leadership in Libraries – The Digital Shift.

The Data-Driven, 21st-Century ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ – Betsy Morais – The Atlantic

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“Flexibility is the guiding principle at Coliloquy: narrative structure, process, and format are all up for adjustment with every new title, and every last reader. A choose-your-own-adventure model* for the data-tracking age, its books are designed with multiple “pathways” that lead stories down divergent plotlines. The choices that readers make are logged, anonymously, for analysis by Coliloquy’s team and the authors themselves.”

via The Data-Driven, 21st-Century ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ – Betsy Morais – The Atlantic.

GTA Technology Topics, Tips & Tricks: Reminder Statistics Canada Making Data Free February 1st

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Saw this Huffington Post article reminding us that Statistics Canada is making their data free. With the announcement made last year, Statistics Canada will officially open up their online data for free Wednesday, February 1st. The data will be under a new open data license agreement according to a post at EmbasseyMag.ca.
 
Pricing was previously $3.00 per time series.  Here is a great post from David Eaves from January 5, 2011 breaking down why Statistics Canada data should be free, past revenue details and the benefits of opening up the data.