Wednesday 25 March 2015

Day 159, organising data gathering



Thinking about organising data for various projects.  Some of the data is in the form of research, hunting down resources on the web.

This represents one page of random Google bookmarks saved for further reference.  These were all unlabelled, 72 unlabelled in total, that's 3 pages.  There are over 300 labelled bookmarks, that's 24 pages.


Hawley Tool Collection - Current Research - hawleytoolcollection.com

How to Win Elections - The UK Election... - howtowinelections.co.uk 

Teblog - typepad.com

Photo Essay: After Schengen — Failed... - failedarchitecture.com 

Briel Computers - brielcomputers.com  

Buying Guide: How to Choose a Les Paul... - musiciansfriend.com 

Catalogs - VMware NEE - vmware.com 

How to Run Beginners Guide - about.com 

Blog | DC Rainmaker - dcrainmaker.com 

Ms Pac-Man Competition - essex.ac.uk 

Storytelling | Xtranormal - xtranormal.com 



Maybe at some point these bookmarks will be revisited, if I can recall why they were collected in the first place.

Some of the labels only have a single bookmark associated with them, e.g. lighting, northern college, bread.  Day to day things of passing interest.

Other labels have many bookmarks associated with them, e.g. cloudObject (36), cloudMetadata (10), cloudSecurity (13), but then these formed part of the research set for my dissertation.

And one single, second level module even had 56 bookmarks.  I thought that was overkill but looking back, Shannon's equation, High Speed Packet Access, and all the other communications stuff that needed to be assimilated for one 60 credit course was immense.  

There's almost certainly a better way of organising resources, bookmarks really are the cheap and cheerful method.

*Wanders off in search of the magic answer.














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