Braun Stewarding Analytics Through Data Visualization
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The document discusses the role of data visualization in library settings, highlighting its importance in facilitating analysis, exploration, and communication of library data. It emphasizes that data visualization serves as both an analytical tool and a means of storytelling, allowing libraries to evaluate resources, assess policies, and better connect with patrons. By utilizing various metrics and mapping techniques, libraries can gain deeper insights into resource usage and improve services.
Braun Stewarding Analytics Through Data Visualization
- 1. Stewarding Analytics through Data Visualization in Library Settings Steven Braun Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist Northeastern University Libraries Digital Scholarship Group September 12, 2018 NISO / Using Analytics to Extract Value from the Library’s Data
- 2. What is data visualization? the use of visual encodings to represent information (data) in a way that facilitates exploration, discovery, and analysis
- 3. What is data visualization? the use of visual encodings to represent information (data) in a way that facilitates exploration, discovery, and analysis
- 4. What is data visualization? the use of visual encodings to represent information (data) in a way that facilitates exploration, discovery, and analysis
- 5. What is data visualization? the use of visual encodings to represent information (data) in a way that facilitates exploration, discovery, and analysis
- 6. Visualization has multiple faces a process or practice of communication, narrative, and representation an artifact or object of scholarly inquiry, analysis, and investigation
- 7. What happens in the space between?
- 12. Data visualization is an analytical and rhetorical tool we can use to communicate information, point attention, and tell a story
- 13. Data visualization is an analytical and rhetorical tool we can use to evaluate the quality of library resources, assess practices and policies, and connect with patrons
- 17. Evaluating the quality of library resources The Manifold project illuminated weaknesses in the sustainability, quality, and reliability of the institution’s subscription to Scopus Library stewardship of existing subscription resources in new contexts breathed heightened rigor and value into their usage
- 18. Evaluating the quality of library resources Assessing practices and policies gate counts circulation counts geographic borrowing trends (ILL) reference and instruction statistics
- 24. Evaluating the quality of library resources Assessing practices and policies Conventional measures of circulation may not adequately inform collections practices What would it look like to (literally) map collections usage against the space those collections occupy?
- 28. Heatmap showing magnitude of circulation counts over time for each unique call number range mapped to the physical shelves those ranges occupy
- 29. Evaluating the quality of library resources Assessing practices and policies Connecting with patrons Data about how library spaces and resources are used by patrons can elucidate new frames of understanding for both library and user alike
- 34. Data visualization is an analytical and rhetorical tool we can use to communicate information, point attention, and tell a story
- 35. Data visualization is a potent medium for storytelling we often need to communicate evidence-based findings about our services, resources, and users – how the many faces of libraries are utilized and understood from both inside and outside