News, Resources

Resource: Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R

Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R | Spatial Analysis. Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysis and visualisation of spatial data with R. The software has become established as one of the best around for statistics and it is becoming increasingly recognised as a tool for data visualisation (I wrote […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Head, Digital Initiatives | University of Waterloo

Head, Digital Initiatives | Library | University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo Library seeks a creative, dynamic and public service oriented professional librarian to fill a leadership position as Head, Digital Initiatives.  The position offers an exciting opportunity for a visionary leader to build on past and present achievements and to move the digital […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Open Source Indexing

Historic documents often contain handwriting, old fonts, or other text formats that OCR software can’t handle. We need humans–from volunteers to paid staff–to read the document images and transcribe what they see into databases which can be searched, analyzed, crawled, and used by researchers. Until now those efforts have required organizations either to outsource indexing […]

News, Resources

Resource: Tabula takes data from PDF to CSV

 Tabula lets you upload a (text-based) PDF file into a simple web interface and magically pull tabular data into CSV format. Tabula is free and available under the MIT open-source license. Introducing Tabula – Features – Source: An OpenNews project.