Lightning talks will be available for viewing throughout the training week. In this session, presenters will answer questions about the pre-recorded talks.
Please watch the videos in advance of the session.
Subtitles are available for all lightning talk videos. You can access the subtitles by clicking on the ‘CC’ button at the bottom right of the player. You can also access automatically-generated subtitles in other languages by pressing the ‘gear’ icon in the bottom right of the player, selecting ‘Auto-translate’, and then selecting the language you prefer.
Lightning Talks
Data Literacy in [insert time here] Minutes
Julie Marcoux (Dalhousie University)
Be terrified by some spooky data headlines, dazed by the many dimensions of data, informed by data literacy definitions and frameworks, amazed by interesting examples, and (maybe) feel more ready to explain data literacy to your colleagues as a result of watching this lightning-fast talk.
Harnessing the “Power From Data!”
Alparslan Ozturk (Carleton University)
Understanding data can be difficult and learning how to do so can be intimidating. Yet data analysis is a vital component in the researcher’s toolkit. In parallel, for data specialists and librarians, it can also be difficult to decide, and easy to get lost, when determining where to start teaching the fundamentals of data analysis. Thankfully, we can now use Statistics Canada’s “Power From Data!”. This lightning talk will describe what information is available on “Statistics: Power From Data!”, and how it can be an effective tool in helping teach data analysis.
Speed Through Excel’s Flash Fill Feature
Julie Marcoux (Dalhousie University)
Do you know about DGUIDs? Have you ever used Excel’s Flash Fill feature? Have you ever thought of combining DGUIDs and Excel’s Flash Fill? Did you know that you can view the same Excel file in two different windows at the same time? Is that too many questions??? Learn about Flash Fills in Excel using an example relevant to the DLI community, and also be amazed by an incredibly easy trick in Excel - that also works in Microsoft Word - that seemingly no one knows about!
Survey Weights
Grant Gibson (CRDCN)
