A few years back, Microsoft Excel started automatically saving my spreadsheet files with the extensions .xlsx. I first noticed it when I got a new…
What’s the Deal with .xlsx?
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If you missed it, I recently posted about the future direction of the DCXL project. I boiled it down to the question of Add-in versus…
A powerful tool for working with messy data. This is the tag line for Google Refine, a web-based application that can be used to manipulate…
I recently updated this site with a page listing the DCXL Requirements. These five requirements are the basic feature set and capabilities we would like…
I’m guilty. I often admit this when I meet librarians at conferences and workshops – I’m guilty of never using my librarians as a resource…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 3
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I’m in the process of posting the requirements we are submitting for the DCXL add-in, in four parts. “Requirements” are the capabilities we want the…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 2
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I’m in the process of posting the requirements we are submitting for the DCXL add-in. These are the capabilities we want the proposed add-in to…
What Scientists Want: Requirements Part 1
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Just before the holidays, I managed to finish the first version of the DCXL requirements. These requirements are the set of Excel capabilities that scientists…
The NeverEnding Task: Organizing Files
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In my speaking with scientists about data management, I often talk about how they organize their work files on their computers. Asking someone about this…
Back in October, the National Science Foundation announced changes to its Grant Proposal Guidelines (Full GPG for January 2013 here). I blogged about this back when the announcement was…