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Finding Data

Finding Data . Big Data, Little Data: Having it All October 3, 2013 Denise Bennett, Marston Science Library . Looking for others’ datasets?. * To reuse * To serve as model for your data. http://library.ufl.edu/datamgmt. Choose “idea” from the data life cycle. Link to Datasets guide.

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Finding Data

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  1. Finding Data Big Data, Little Data: Having it All October 3, 2013 Denise Bennett, Marston Science Library

  2. Looking for others’ datasets? * To reuse * To serve as model for your data

  3. http://library.ufl.edu/datamgmt

  4. Choose “idea” from the data life cycle

  5. Link to Datasets guide

  6. Datasets guide What do you mean by “data”?

  7. Strategies for finding datasets

  8. Finding datasets within journal articles

  9. Multidisciplinary repositories Let’s start with Dryad

  10. Repository example: Dryad

  11. Dryad.org – search results Search for “size,” get 966 datasets

  12. Dryad.org – search results See major subjects of resulting datasets See journals where articles were published

  13. Dryad entry See individual files; 17 for this project

  14. Dryad entry: citation See how to cite the article and the data package

  15. Dryad dataset: in Excel, ready for re-use

  16. Back to Multidisciplinary repositories Let’s look at Databib

  17. Repository example: Databib 603 data repositories total in Databib.

  18. Databib: search results A search for “climatology” shows 53 groups

  19. Databib entry See info about the group and a link to its website

  20. Databib leads to website Data Access links Recent Data Activities noted

  21. back on the Datasets guide Choose any subject category to see discipline-specific repositories

  22. Citing datasets See examples and recommended practices

  23. back to Datasets home Scroll down for Tips & Tricks

  24. For more info More guides Find YOUR librarian

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