Big Data and School Libraries Got Data?

Evelyn Schwartz, Georgetown Day School

ekschwartz@gds.org | @GDSHSLibrary

about meMLS, MA (History)

data fangirl

what about data literacy?

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“As information literacy encompasses more

than the mechanical skills to get a list of

results out of an article database, data

literacy is much more than copying a table

into a paper or even downloading a dataset and

doing a regression analysis.

Data literacy is the ability to read and

interpret data, to think critically about

statistics, and to use statistics as evidence.”

"Show Me the Data: Partnering with Instructors to Teach Data Literacy," (2011),http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/national/2011/papers/show_me_the_data.pdf

data visualizations open data big data

the 3 Vs of BIGness - volume,

velocity, variety

a new way of looking at information

- multipurpose, crowd sourced,

accessible, participatory

PROMISE

THE

OF BIG DATA

'ORIGINAL' RESEARCH

SCHOOL LIBRARIANS

FOR

innovative ways to teach the importance ofevidence in argument by:

using big data sets

gathering their own data

PROMISE

THE

OF BIG DATA

Social Justice / Service Learning

SCHOOL LIBRARIANS

FOR

the research 'bridge' between service learningand curriculum

PROMISE

THE

OF BIG DATA

Teaching Privacy /Plagiarism

SCHOOL LIBRARIANS

FOR

connecting ideas of privacy and plagiarism totheir daily lives AND their school work

PRIVACY

PRIVACY

PRIVACY

PRIVACY

PLAGIARISM

RT, MT, in-text links

footnotes, paraphrasing =

PLAGIARISM

The PERILS of Big Data

over-emphasis on data

bias and context still important

stories, not just numbers

SELECTED REFERENCES & further reading Aiden, Erez, and Jean-Baptiste Michel. Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture. New York: Riverhead,2013. Print.

Bailey, Jonathan. "5 People Accused of Twagiarism (and How to Avoid Being Number 6)." Plagiarism Blog.IThenticate, 7 Nov. 2013. Web. 01 Oct. 2014. <http://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/5-people-accused-of-twagiarism-and-how-to-avoid-being-number-6#.VEkX3Ut66Gk>.

Bieraugel, Mark. "Keeping Up With... Big Data." American Library Association. ACRL, June 2013. Web. 01 Oct.2014. <http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/big_data>.

boyd, danah and Crawford, Kate, Six Provocations for Big Data (September 21, 2011). A Decade in InternetTime: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September 2011. Available at SSRN:http://ssrn.com/abstract=1926431 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1926431

Huwe, Terence K. "Data Discovery and Data Curation Going Hand in Hand." Computers in Libraries (June2013): n. pag. Web. 01 Oct. 2014. <http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/apr13/Huwe--Data-Discovery-and-Data-Curation-Going-Hand-in-Hand.shtml>.

Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor, and Kenneth Cukier. Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live,Work, and Think. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Print.

Schwabe, Derek. "Introducing Big Data for Development." Institute Notes: A Dialogue on Overcoming Hungerand Poverty. Bread for the World Institute, 29 Apr. 2013. Web. 01 Oct. 2014. <http://notes.bread.org/2013/04/big-data-for-development.html>.

Questions?

Evelyn Schwartz, Georgetown Day School

ekschwartz@gds.org | @GDSHSLibraryhttp://gds.libguides.com/bigdata

suggestions?