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BILLY AUGUSTINE

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  • Courses
    • Information Practices in Contemporary Society
    • Database Design
    • Human Information Interaction
    • Methods of Research and Evaluation in Information Organizations
    • Making Sense with Data - Data Analysis
    • Information Design I – Systems (UX design)
    • Information Visualization & Visual Analytics
    • Master's Thesis
  • Skills
    • Oral presentation
    • Editing
    • Research
    • Technical Writing
    • Teaching
    • Leadership
    • Data visualization
    • Tableau
    • MS Excel
    • MS PowerPoint
    • User Study
    • Curriculum design
    • Teaching / Advising / Mentoring
    • Administration
    • Content Management
    • Digitization
    • Metadata preparation
    • Quality Control
    • Database design
    • Text mining
    • R - Programming
    • MS Access
    • Figma
    • MS Publisher
    • Voyant
    • Gephi
    • Camtasia
    • Canva
    • Wix - Website Design
    • CONTENTdm
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Prototyping
    • Literature Review
    • Data Analysis
  • Experience
    • Graduate Research Assistant, Designing for people specialization, UBC
    • Graduate Academic Assistant, Metadata, Preservation and Quality control, UBC

Course: Methods of Research and Evaluation in Information Organizations

To ground students in the theory and practice of social science research methods, and to show how these methods can be usefully employed in addressing important issues within information organizations. Topics dealt with here; Role of research in the information professions; Evidence-based practice; Design thinking and the applied research design process; Critical evaluation of published research. Valid and Reliable research; Quantitative and qualitative research strategies; Questionnaire design; Observation methods; Interviewing; Content analysis; Focus groups; Data analysis

Search engine personalization : Biases and bubbles affecting academic users.

Here I researched aspects around "personalisation" as applied by search engines and how they affect even academic users of the internet.



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