Start Over Date 2014

22. Putting on Something More Revealing: Exposing Our Fedora Data (41:37)

Date:
April 2, 2014
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Julie; Shelby, Jacob
Summary:
IU's Fedora digital repository houses thousands of digitized items including pages of text, photographs, puzzles, three-dimensional artifacts, prints, audio, and moving pictures. These items are ma...

26. The Failure of Altmetrics (58:56)

Date:
November 12, 2014
Main contributors:
Sugimoto, Cassidy
Summary:
In this talk, Cassidy Sugimoto argues that altmetrics have failed to deliver on their promise. She discusses criticisms of altmetrics (including those dealing with validity and reliability issues),...

27. Sharon Dunwoody, BA'69, PhD'78 (02:16)

Date:
2014
Main contributors:
Dunwoody, Sharon
Summary:
Sharon Dunwoody is the Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She retired in 2013 after more than 30 years of teac...

28. Tim Nickens, BA'82 (02:24)

Date:
2014
Main contributors:
Nickens, Tim
Summary:
A lifetime of newspaper work culminated in journalism’s biggest accolade for Tim Nickens, who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for editorial for his work with the Tampa Bay Times. Nickens’ first newspa...

30. The Logical Structure of Human Civilization (1:24:07)

Date:
September 11, 2014
Main contributors:
John Searle
Summary:
The distinctive features of human civilization, as opposed to animal societies, are such things as money, property, marriage, government, etc. These are created and partly constituted by linguisti...

32. Simple Heuristics for a Complex World (1:43:32)

Date:
March 27, 2014
Main contributors:
Gerd Gigerenzer
Summary:
Whom to marry? How to invest? Whom to trust? Complex problems require complex solutions – so we might think. And if the solution doesn’t work, we make it more complex. That recipe is perfect for a ...

33. An Introduction to Logistic Regression in Stata (1:25:42)

Date:
April 11, 2014
Main contributors:
Maria T. Kaylen
Summary:
Logistic regression is a commonly used type of analysis in the social sciences and other fields in which the outcome of interest is dichotomous. This workshop takes a hands-on approach to utilizing...