http://edtags.org/ http://edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://edtags.org/bookmarks.php/aseldow/data Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www2.learningpt.org/catalog/item.asp?SessionID=313354056&productID=242 This guide is designed for educators who are beginning to learn how to use data for school improvement. It offers foundational information on types of data, strategies for analyzing and understanding data, and methods for determining how these efforts can influence goals and planning. aseldow Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:30:31 +0000 data driven decision making data stats datawise whitepaper http://www.setda.org/web/guest/datadrivendecisionmaking While many educators may think that Data-Driven Decision-Making is a new conversation instigated by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), in fact, it reflects a larger societal trend. In nearly every national and international industrial sector, the world is witnessing the ability of large networks to collect data and, therefore, transform the understanding of how enterprises successfully function. aseldow Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:57:29 +0000 data data driven decisions nclb cio http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/articles/EPRU-0208-36-OWI.pdf Levin, D., & Arafeh, S. (2002). The digital disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools (Pew Internet and American Life Project). Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research. aseldow Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:14:46 +0000 pew internet internet savvy data stats research t529 t502 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide. aseldow Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:05:53 +0000 data web design survey http://www.sas.com/govedu/edu/programs/fellowship2_us.html In support of student research, SAS launched the SAS Fellowship Program for the United States, Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean in 2006. This program gives students the opportunity to use SAS software, the world’s leading analytic and business intelligence software, for research purposes. This competitive program gives students a free six-month license for SAS software to use in their research. Undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students from the United States, Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean are eligible to apply to participate in the program, which will accept a limited number of students. aseldow Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:08:06 +0000 sas statistics data web mining text mining data mining http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/client/act_dsp_pdf.cfm?name=mr070821-4topline.pdf This is the actual survey data that concludes: "The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year -- half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven." aseldow Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:56:05 +0000 books library reading survey data stats http://www.citeulike.org/faq/data.adp The CiteULike database is potentially useful for researchers in various fields. Physicists and computer scientists have expressed an interest in trying to analyse the structure of the data, and frequently ask for datasets to be made available. Previously this was done on an ad-hoc basis, and it relied on us remembering to update the data file. Now, there is an automatic process which runs every n aseldow Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:04:50 +0000 citeulike data datasets social bookmarking research stats http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/ Visual displays of data--interesting methods and approaches using modern web tools. aseldow Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:58:54 +0000 data visual display graphs images visual representation web 2.0 http://www.robgoodlatte.com/2007/05/21/tufte-a-new-style-for-mint/ Blog post with good Tufte and Inman design links. aseldow Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:22:16 +0000 t530 design web design visual display visual representation data graph http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~cliu/research/datasets.html Interesting data sets from Internet, Economic, Finance, and real estate sectors. aseldow Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:33:42 +0000 data internet economics finance real estate http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/33156/ Edward Tufte is most likely the world’s only graphic designer with roadies. “We own two of everything—amplifiers, digital projectors,” other A/V gear, he says. “One set moves up and down the West Coast, and one stays in the East, to keep the FedEx charges down.” He plays 35 or so dates a year, at $380 per ticket. Today’s is in a raddled old auditorium on 34th Street, over the Hammerstein Ballroom. aseldow Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:02:29 +0000 tufte t530 edward tufte design graphics visual display data http://www.limesurvey.org/ Open source online survey tool similar to SurveyMonkey...Features: * Unlimited number of surveys at the same time * Creation of a printable survey version * Unlimited number of question groups in a survey * Unlimited numbers of questions in a group/survey * 20 different question types with more to come * Ability to set conditions for questions depending on earlier answers. aseldow Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:43:59 +0000 phpsurveyor survey surveys online survey surveymonkey poll polling tool stats data http://friendthing.trigse.cx/ Awhile back, Facebook had a way to "visualize" your friends, in the form of a graphic containing all of your friends and their interconnections. They've since removed this, likely because of the processing time needed to create it. aseldow Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:42:50 +0000 friends applet java touchgraph visual display data cloud nodes algorithm http://www.data360.org/ Data360 is a site where you can find, present and share data. Data360 has been created to provide clear context on important cultural, environmental, social and economic issues. aseldow Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:36:19 +0000 data graphs visual representations stats graphical representations social justice demographics http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx Great for teachers and students! By providing easy to use demographic information we hope to influence your decision making in possitive ways. Thematic maps help us discover trends and patterns more readily than other data presentation formats. Because of the efficiency of information transfer, and ease of reading, thematic maps make a perfect presentation tool. aseldow Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:17:41 +0000 demographics us census us demographic data data demographic