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June 14, 2023 Bob Glushko

Seven Ways That Data Science Projects Fail

The pragmatic value of data science for solving business problems has made it a rival or replacement for information science from an industry perspective. I reviewed numerous data science projects and interviewed numerous data science experts to understand the factors that make projects successful, but this work also revealed—by counterfactual reasoning and some confessions from the experts—why some data science projects fail. I identified seven causes of failure and I explain here how “information science thinking” can prevent or lessen these problems in data science projects.

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June 3, 2023 Hamid Reza Saeidnia

Open AI, ChatGPT: To Be, or Not to Be, That Is the Question

Some consider ChatGPT smarter than humans, some call it destructive technology, and others consider it a great helper for writing scientific and research studies. The world of artificial intelligence shows that it is very exciting and that this technology can help humans at a very high level in any field, a subject that was considered science fiction in the past decades. But now it is a part of reality.

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May 28, 2023 Yazdan Mansourian

The Transformative Capacity of Leisurely Information

To what extent can accessing desired information transform our views, shape our behavior, or influence our wellbeing? What does occur in our mind when we find the information we need? Building upon these questions, what emotions arise in our consciousness when we encounter unexpected or conflicting information? How do these emotions impact our information behavior patterns and the way we evaluate or interpret information?

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April 25, 2023 Niloofar Sohjoo

The Photo Exhibition: A visual exploration of information in our shared lives with companion animals

The Information Experience of Furry Families exhibition was held at the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand, on April 20-21, 2023. The exhibition featured a series of photographs and photo voices made by animal guardians across New Zealand to highlight the information that shapes understanding between the dog, cat, and their humans.

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March 19, 2023 Christopher Lueg

The Coming Age of Alternative Ways of Seeing. Part 2: Technological Considerations

We explore the idea of “viewsonas”, which model an alternative way of seeing and experiencing human and non-human perspectives through technologies: a cat-cam, for example, or a wheelchair simulator.

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March 19, 2023 Christopher Lueg

The Coming Age of Alternative Ways of Seeing. Part 1: Foundations

Considerations of environmental-centered design and life-centered design lead us to the question: How to represent non-human animals in human centered design?

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July 26, 2022 Chu Jingli

The Development of LIS Preprint Platform in China

This article introduces ChinaXiv, which is the earliest and most comprehensive preprint platform in China, and highlights the functions and development status of the Preprint Platform for LIS, based on ChinaXiv, the only Chinese preprint platform serving scholars of Library and Information Science.

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May 4, 2022 Madelyn Sanfilippo

Mental Health and Title IX: Challenging Privacy and Transparency

How transparent are universities about mental health resources and student privacy relative to Title IX? What are best practices for information dissemination relative to these resources? What should students know about privacy, transparency, and mental health relative to Title IX?

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November 7, 2021 Chaocheng He

Recommending the Researcher Leadership in Research Collaborations

The tremendous growth in volume and variety of big scholarly data leads to information overload, which poses unprecedented challenges to seeking suitable research collaborators.

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October 19, 2021 Kate McDowell

Storytelling as Information Part 2: Future S-DIKW Research

Serious consideration of storytelling may be a missing piece in such efforts to build systems—both human and computational—that thwart misinformation.