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Programs. The School of Information offers three degree programs: a professional master’s degree in information management, a professional master’s degree in data science, and and an academic doctoral degree. The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program is a two-year full-time program, designed to train students in the skills needed to succeed as information professionals.

Such a profession is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring aspects of computer science, cognitive science, psychology and sociology, economics, business, law, library/information studies, and communications. The Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program is an innovative part-time fully online program that trains data-savvy professionals and managers.

Working with data at scale requires distinctive new skills and tools. 50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily - S. How to Turn Your Creative Brainstorm into a Completed Project - How to Work Like the Masters | LifeRemix. Written by Jay of Dumb Little Man. When I need work done on my car, I consult with a mechanic. When it's time to build a deck in the backyard, I will search for an expert and listen to what he says. So when it comes to life itself, why wouldn't you at least consider what experts think? Trust me, I completely understand that the term 'expert' is often self-proclaimed. With that, LifeRemix has done some homework and we're bringing you a list of things that you'll need to consider. Here are a handful of tips on working from the most popular productivity bloggers on the internet, along with bloggers on organization, the environment and more.

From Wisebread: Achieve greatness fifteen minutes at a time. From Dumb Little Man: Gain 10 days per year by adjusting your sleep. From Zen Habits: Eliminate all but the essential tasks. From LifeDev: Take creative breaks. From The Happiness Project: Walk around the block. From No Impact Man: Let your TV rob someone else's time. From Success From the Nest:

13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits | Zen Habits. “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” - Mark Twain Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. I’ve learned a lot about changing habits in the last 2 1/2 years, from quitting smoking to taking up running and GTD and vegetarianism and waking early and all that. I could go on, of course, but you get the picture. I’ve not only learned a lot about what you should do when changing habits, but through my failures, I’ve learned about what not to do. And trust me, I’ve had lots of failures. I’ve found failures to be just as important as successes when trying to learn how to improve, especially when it comes to changing habits. I’ve done that, with one failure after another, and would like to share a few things I’ve learned to avoid when trying to change a habit.

“Motivation is what gets you started. Taking on two or more habits at once. “We are what we repeatedly do. Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life - PickTheBrain | Motivation. 1. Live Below Your Means There will always be temptation to forsake the future for immediate gratification. We all want to buy that new piece of technology, treat ourselves to an expensive night on the town, or take out a loan for the flashy car we can’t afford. It might feel great at the time but rash spending eventually will build and hurt a lot later on. Enjoy life’s simple pleasures and save as much as you can.

Expensive things don’t create lasting happiness and security. Careful spending will bring you greater leisure and enjoyment in the long run. 2. Saving is great, but to make the most of your money you need to put it to work. A post today at The Simple Dollar really got me thinking. Wise investing is the surest path to financial independence and it’s something everyone can work on. 3. To be happy we need continuous growth. Education builds over time. 4. Suppose you had everything you wanted. 5. Bonus: 6. You only get one body. Increase your productivity at work by letting go of negative men.

My alma mater is currently ranked number one in all of the college men’s basketball rankings. They’ve been in the top spot for 11 of the 14 weeks of the polls, and were number one in the preseason. There are five games left in the regular season, and all of the teams Kansas has left to play would love to see the Jayhawks lose. Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, and Missouri fans aren’t the only ones who want to see Kansas mess up their record in the last five games.

Fans of the other ranked teams would be happy to see Kansas take a tumble, and, after watching some of the games this year, I’m pretty certain there are a few referees that would be glad to see Kansas lose, too. In competitive sports like basketball, a game has to end with a winner and a loser. In our work lives, however, very few things are like competitive sports.

If you want to be productive and manage your time well at work, you need to let go of the belief that your workplace is a zero-sum game. 10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work. Post written by Albert van Zyl from the blog HeadSpace. The lives of great people give us interesting clues about how to organise our days. All of them attached great value to their daily routines. This is because they saw it as being part of ‘becoming who they are’, as Nietzsche puts it. For the same reason they were also highly individual in their routines. This is perhaps the first lesson that we can learn – that it takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you. There are at least 10 other lessons that the daily routines of the great can teach us: 1. Despite the modern obsession with physical presence at offices (also known as ‘presenteeism’), very few of the great worked long hours.

Philosopher Michel Foucault would only work from 9am to 3pm. 2. Even during these short days, the great took plenty of breaks. Socrates would sometimes simply stop and hold completely still for several minutes. 3. 4. Churchill would even have a bath and dress for meals. 5. 6. 7. 7 Secrets of the Super Organized. A few years ago, my life was a mess. So was my house, my desk, my mind. Then I learned, one by one, a few habits that got me completely organized. Am I perfect? Of course not, and I don’t aim to be. But I know where everything is, I know what I need to do today, I don’t forget things most of the time, and my house is uncluttered and relatively clean (well, as clean as you can get when you have toddlers and big kids running around).

So what’s the secret? In truth, there aren’t any secrets. Are these obvious principles? If your life is a mess, like mine was, I don’t recommend trying to get organized all in one shot. So here are the 7 habits: Reduce before organizing. If you take your closet full of 100 things and throw out all but the 10 things you love and use, now you don’t need a fancy closet organizer. Write it down now, always. 5 Ways To Combat Reactionary Workflow | Zen Habits. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Scott Belsky of Behance and The 99%. Every few minutes, more communications are being sent your way. Emails, text messages, voice mails, instant messages, twitter messages, facebook posts…and the list goes on. Your human response? You simply try to stay afloat. You peck away at the latest communications at the top of your many inboxes. For those of us with great ideas and bold goals for the future, reactionary workflow is a big problem.

For the past five years, i’ve been interviewing uber-productive leaders and teams – people at companies like Google, IDEO, and Disney, and individuals like author Chris Anderson and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Many of the people I met have developed ways to combat reactionary workflow. Create windows of non-stimulation. Keep Two Lists When it comes to organizing the day’s tasks – and how your energy will be allocated – create two lists: one for urgent items and another for important ones. Don’t hoard urgent items. Simple Productivity | Zen Habits.

The duality of knowledge. Abstract Knowledge Management (KM) is a field that has attracted much attention both in academic and practitioner circles. Most KM projects appear to be primarily concerned with knowledge that can be quantified and can be captured, codified and stored - an approach more deserving of the label Information Management.Recently there has been recognition that some knowledge cannot be quantified and cannot be captured, codified or stored. However, the predominant approach to the management of this knowledge remains to try to convert it to a form that can be handled using the 'traditional' approach.In this paper, we argue that this approach is flawed and some knowledge simply cannot be captured.

A method is needed which recognises that knowledge resides in people: not in machines or documents. Introduction Initially KM was seen as an extension to Artificial Intelligence (AI) where knowledge was viewed as information: a commodity that can be codified, stored and transmitted. While, Conclusions. Information Research: an international electronic journal. Infor. Start here! — emotion-research.net. Not sure what the AAAC is all about? Overwhelmed by the amount of information available? This page gives you a structured entry point. Emotion-oriented computing is a broad research area involving many disciplines. The AAAC (Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing) grew out of the EU-funded network of excellence HUMAINE. This project was making a co-ordinated effort to come to a shared understanding of the issues involved, and to propose exemplary research methods in the various areas, as explained below.

This overview page presents a proposed “map” of the research area, distinguishing core technologies from application-oriented and psychologically oriented work. Current research issues in the various areas are briefly outlined, and references for further reading are given. The following figure is our proposed map of the thematic areas involved in emotion-oriented computing. The central column represents the areas where purely technological challenges loom largest. HCI at Stanford.