Making the Data Work: Telling your story with Usage Statistics

CLAREMONT COLLEGES LIBRARY

JOHN MCDONALDELECTRONIC RESOURCES & LIBRARIES

AUSTIN, TEXASFEBRUARY 28, 2011

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Making data work

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Decide which story to tell

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2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 $300

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Materials $ per StudentSalaries per Student

Wrong Measures

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Better measures

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Salary as % of Budget, 2010

Story told, audience receptive

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Even better

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Salary as % of Budget, 2010

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Consider the audience

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Materials Funding

-23% over past 4 years

Who would be concerned about this?

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Choose your statistics wiselyNumber of obs = 44457 R-squared = 0.1032

Root MSE 0.3669 Adj R-squared = 0.1016

Source Partial SS df MS F Prob > F

Model 687.704 80 8.5963 63.86 0         

slip 0.834 1 0.8338 6.19 0.0128

ybp_select 1.032 5 0.2064 1.53 0.1756

content_level 0.825 5 0.1650 1.23 0.2939

country 2.622 4 0.6554 4.87 0.0006

slip*ybp_select 22.795 5 4.5591 33.87 0.0000

slip*discipline 47.601 8 5.9502 44.20 0.0000

slip*content_level 2.384 4 0.5960 4.43 0.0014

slip*country 0.359 4 0.0898 0.67 0.6146

ybp_select*content_l 4.651 11 0.4228 3.14 0.0003

ybp_select*country 12.982 20 0.6491 4.82 0.0000

content_l*country 23.481 13 1.8062 13.42 0.0000

Residual 5973.277 44376 0.1346   

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Choose your images wisely16%

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12% Method BooksNot Ordered, Slip 16,059Autoship 4,839Ordered, No Slip 5,300Ordered, Slip 3,665

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Choose your images wisely

27%

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6% Method BooksNot Ordered, Slip 3,755Autoship 6,560Ordered, No Slip 3,009Ordered, Slip 800

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Choose your images wiselyJSTOR Citations (2000 v. 2004)

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Play with a friend

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Library ModelUser-

SelectedPre-

SelectedUsage by Download

Usage Read

OnlineA MIX 1131 552 6773 9888B MIX 5246 2612 42880 38329C USER 2198 102 0 11801D USER 3010 48 697 15126E MIX 4159 909 17396 25604F PRE 0 1451 4905 3082G PRE 31 2154 7001 4459H USER 801 0 556 415I MIX 305 336 3334 2568J USER 2799 53 5 13349K MIX 147 276 2436 2283

 TOTAL   19,831 8,496 85,983 126,904

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Think harder