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Managing a Miasma of Statistics
Benjamin HeetUniversity of Notre Dame
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What stats should we collect?
How do we manage what we collect?
How do we use and interpret the data?
What are best practices going forward?
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Impact factorEigenfactor
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What should we collect?
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Can we make questionable numbers more meaningful by adding other questionable numbers?
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What does it all mean?
HTML vs PDF
Outlier – Use Spikes
HTML vs PDF
OMG…Where did that come from????
Outlier / Use Spikes
Speedy Delivery? Not quite!
Keeping Busy
Download new stats each month for every provider
Merge new month onto prior report
Using Excel v-lookup function
Why are we doing this?
Building a better mousetrap
There must be a better way!
http://erm.library.nd.edu
Upload statstics as .txt files System parses, verifies and imports data Log files of all activity
Account logins stored in single location, easily accessible System does the work, takes significantly less time
Manage statistics, option to delete problematic months System automatically flags outlier data / use spikes
Separate reporting page Collection managers can run and obtain their own reports
Report output, option to export to excel
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Questions?
Find out more at http://erm.library.nd.edu
Benjamin Heet, heet.2@nd.edu
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