Five Questions for t « Beaver Archivist. I’ve shamelessly lifted this from Geof Huth’s page. I’ve needed a kick in the shorts to get past a writer’s block issue. Well, that’s not strictly true, more of a publisher’s block. I have some stuff written; I just can’t seem to get it out. I know, I know — short breaths and push. As Geof said “Whether this tactic works or not to motivate me, I had a good time answering these questions.”
How did you become an archivist? In the usual way, of course. Like many archivists from the olden days, I fell into the profession. So I took the job and liked it immediately. What’s changed the most since you became an archivist? Two things. Second, despite many lamentations to the contrary, people know what archivists are and what they do. Third is the change in emphasis from working with stuff (ie records and boxes) to working with people (users, other professions, etc). Finally is the smoking. What’s stayed the same (for better or worse)? Um. I think we’ve seen more change than stasis. Like this: Flip Flop Fly Ball. April 10, 2014: Catching up It's been a while.
Off-season came and went, I spent a couple of months in London, lived in a hotel for a while, and now have a new apartment a stone's throw from the stadium of my Mexican soccer team of choice, Cruz Azul. I've not done any infographics about baseball in that time. Weird. Not sure why, but, that's life. I have, though done a bunch of drawings about baseball. November 1, 2013: Day of the Dead Baseball Teams Walking around my neighbourhood (Coyoacán) the other day, I was thinking about the Expos, and seeing people setting up stuff for the Day of the Dead, I put those two things together and drew an ofrenda for the teams that relocated.
October 28, 2013: Árbol de Béisbol This is something I've been working on (slowly) for over two years. October 18, 2013: Switching the -stons October 16, 2013: Balls in logos Fourteen major league teams have balls in their logos. October 13, 2013: ALCS game one October 11, 2013: World Series match-ups. Google Now Charts Unemployment And Other Public Data In Search R.
Maps of Knowledge. [Translations: Japanese] Previous maps of the relationship between branches of modern science were done by mapping the citations among journal articles. These citations are footnotes referencing previous articles on the same or related subjects. Citations are the equivalent links in a posting. They take you to the source. Citation indexes tally these links by subject. Mapping software can display the patterns of links. One example is below: A map of linkage. A new way of mapping these intra-science relationships has just been published. A map of clickage. According to the authors of the the paper the advantages of the clickstream versus citation method is that clickstreams give you a real time picture and are broader in scope. I’ve been wondering about the future of Google and search engines in general. I got a reply from a Google VP in response to my question: “Search quality is based on a combination of page rank and ‘information retrieval score’.
In other words, Yes. The No-Stats All-Star. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a par.