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How can I design better charts, graphs and information displays?

One place to start in designing better charts and graphs is with the work of Edward Tufte. Who is...

GDELT: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone

April 2013: Researchers have released the GDELT: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone dataset...

What are some good workflow tools/project management’s tools and resources available for us to use?

There are a variety of resources out there available for project management and workflow. Some of...

I’m interested in learning about a variety of types of software and programs that would be considere

LearnIt.ucla.edu is exactly what you are looking for. There are many links to all the IT resource...

Lynda.com Playlists

Lynda.com has a great feature to assist in organizing all the great course one will want to take ...

Lynda.com On-The-Go, iOS App

For iPhone and iPad users, Lynda.com has an iOS app to enjoy courses while on-the-go.The app is f...

Digital Research Tools

http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ – “collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly us...

Digital Public Library of America

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/25/national-digital-public-library-launched/

Free web content: sounds/sound effects you can add to your non-commercial sites

Reprinted from the Internet Scout (http://scout.wisc.edu)http://www.soundgator.com/If you are loo...

What are some cost-efficient resources available for off-campus/online data storage?

Google Drive and Amazon Cloud both provide 5GB of free storage. Google Drive’s pricing options ra...

Accessing Pew Research Data

Most of the Pew Research Center survey and other quantitative data is freely available for second...

Creating Spherical Panoramic Visuals

Linux Tools for Digital Imaging, Graphics and Spherical Panoramic PhotographyDigital photographic...

Earth Engine from Google

" Google Earth Engine brings together the world’s satellite imagery — trillions of scientific mea...

David Levine eBook

He is not ex-UCLA Econ Professor David K. Levin, Ex-UCLA Econ Professor David M. Levin’s bo...

"The Cloud" Defined

According to the official NIST definition, “cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, c...

Free Microsoft e-Books

By way of Eric Ligman, Microsoft has made available a large number of free eBooks in multiple for...

Free Powershell eBooks

Great list of free Powershell ebooks and additional PS resources— http://www.hofferle.com/list-of...

Are there any good collaboration authoring/file sharing tools or resources available online?

There are a variety of great tools including but not limited to Google Docs, Dropbox, and Box.net...

Open Data

According to Wikipedia, Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to eve...

Has anyone tried Statwing?

Has anyone tried https://www.statwing.com/ It is free for datasets under 1MB and held for less t...

Translating Higher Ed-Speak from US to UK

It seems some of the terms are quite different.http://www.insidenewcity.com/blog/view/translating...

Lenovo Systems Configuration

Lenovo Personal Systems Reference (PSREF) sheets reveal comprehensive information on the features...

Convert Word Documents to HTML

If the html Microsoft Word gives you is too much, try this conversion site. Based on my one use ...

Apple Repair Agreement

Apple Repair Agreement (ARA):bq. The AppleCare Repair Agreement adds two years of repair service ...

Where can I rent SPSS for 6 months or a year?

http://goo.gl/fxZx3

EduBlog Awards Blog

According to their site http://edublogawards.com/ “The purpose of the Edublog awards is to promot...

Where can I find a place to upload and store my data?

There are lots of ways you can store your data for future use. Some things to keep in mind are: ...

Microsoft Virtual Academy

Improve your IT skill set and help advance your career with a free, easy to access training porta...

How do I merge two dropbox accounts together so there is only one?

At the moment you can only run one installation of Dropbox on a single computer and it can only b...

Academic Conference Posters

Here is a very thorough article on what content to include and how to design a great conference p...

Free On-line course for research data management: MANTRA

Research Data MANTRA http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/ is a course designed for PhD students and...

publisher’s policies on self-archiving

RoMEO “is a searchable database of publisher’s policies regarding the self- archiving of journal ...

Has anyone tried Mukurtu?

Has anyone tried Mukurtu CMS. It’s a free and open source platform for managing and sharing digi...

On the Lynda .com tutorial lessons does UCLA have the premium packag?

Yes, UCLA’s Lynda.com license includes access to the exercise files and entire course library.

YouTube Editor

YouTube provides a simplified video editor:http://www.youtube.com/editorUCLA also provides a YouT...

Are there any useful existing tools or software for a department or campus unit to create an online suggestion box?

As of right now, www.suggestionox.com is free while it remains in beta. Other sites, like suggest...

Microsoft TechEd Sessions Videos & Slides

Microsoft provides TechEd session resources for those who have been unable to attends, and as rev...

Has anyone tried SQLShare?

Has anyone tried SQLShare? http://escience.washington.edu/sqlshareBased out of U. Washington, whi...

HTML to Wiki Converter

A fast tool for converting HTML into wiki markup.http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki...

reverse image search

8 Best Reverse Image Search Engines And Websites – March 4, 2016 How One Visual Search Startup (...

6 Ways to Tell If a Viral Story Is a Hoax

6 Ways to Tell If a Viral Story Is a Hoax – Sep. 21, 2015 – “Easy ways to educate yourself amid e...

Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain

Introduction to a spreadsheet for when things aren’t certain Guesstimate Website

Blameless PostMortems

This is a quick introduction to this powerful idea. https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-...

Bitcoin

Princeton releases Bitcoin textbook freely available draft pdf

Creating Infographics

The Mighty Infographic: One Designer’s Personal Recipe for Creating Infographics – March 4, 2016

Managing YouTube closed captions

“For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, Closed Captions can mean the difference between unde...

Images

Looking for images? Check out the Image Resources library research guide at: http://guides.librar...

Tech for Social Good

Civic Hall – “is a one-of-a-kind community center for the world’s civic innovators. Located in th...

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) consists of best practices for implementi...

Social media: guidelines and expertise for work-related use

I am re-posting information shared by Joseph Maddela on the CWP list on 5/13/16:Are there campus ...

Google Cardboard

YouTube for iOS Now Supports Google Cardboard – May 16, 2016 Stop Calling Google Cardboard’s 360...

anatomy of an information trap

I’ve been following ResearchBuzz for years, but this explanation of how the author works is extre...

Link to a specific tutorial in lynda.com

Let’s say you’ve found a specific tutorial on Lynda.com that you would like to assign to your stu...

Google Forms

Google Forms are an easy way to create survey, signup forms and other data collection pages that ...

data visualization examples

http://flowingdata.com/2016/12/29/best-data-visualization-projects-of-2016/

How to Locate U.S. Congressional Hearings

How to Locate a Published Congressional Hearing: A Beginner’s Guide – August 17, 2015 by Robert ...

Organize Photos

The Best Way to Organize a Lifetime of Photos – April 21, 2015 Wall Street Journal

California Wireless Emergency Alert Program

California Wireless Emergency Alert Program are government-issued safety messages that include AM...

monitor changes to Supreme Court opinions

Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions – June 12, 2014

Free Digital Textbooks

The Price is Right: 11 Excellent Sites for Free Digital Textbooks – Campus Technology 8/14/13Ple...

cvs tools

For those who have to deal with cvs data files, here is a tool to do de-duplication http://source...

Data Mashups with TaDaweb

Described as a cross between Pinterest and Yahoo Pipes, TaDaweb “lets non-technical business pers...

Creating videos for flipped classes

One of the keys of a “flipped class” is to have the lectures online. 6 YouTube lessons for buildi...

ProQuest Launches Free Version of Flow

“Acclaimed cloud-based document management platform now available free to individual researchers”...

Wikipedia - interesting articles about

While you may or may not like or trust Wikipedia, this page is intended for interesting articles ...

Is Credit Card Monitoring Worth It?

Brian Krebs, a well-known reporter focusing on computer security, has an article of prospective i...

Google Public Data Explorer

Google Labs’ Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate...

Data Journalism

5 ways journalists can use Nuzzel with Twitter lists – " Andy Brightwell shows how you can use N...

De-identification doesn't work

Fascinating article. Please add more on this if you find any. No silver bullet: De-identification...

Google's ZeitgeistMinds Series

Google’s Zeitgeist events are a series of intimate gatherings of top global thinkers and leaders....

Sightseeing in Los Angeles

Students create website encouraging the exploration of LA by bus – Oct. 16, 2014 (writeup of ht...

Google Spreadsheet Tricks

Use Google Sheets for Multilingual Chat with Speakers of Different Languages How to Color Altern...

Diagramming in Markdown

Markdown is often used for writing documentation, but it doesn’t provide supports for diagrams. N...

urban computing

Urban computing is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous d...

Wordstar converter

To open and convert old Wordstar for Dos files in Microsoft Word, you will need a converter, whic...

More Than You Want to Know About Watts and Amps

Learn more than you really want to know about the differences between watts and VA and how to use...

What is the best way to send/post documents for my students?

The best thing to do with your documents prior to posting is converting it to a PDF. With Word do...

How to erase old marks off a dry erase board

If you’ve ever wondered what to do to clean old marks off a dry erase board, here is a detailed h...

What is the EE Times?

According to the wikipedia:“The EE Times hosts news, columns, and featured articles for semicondu...

What is CAPTCHA?

CAPTCHA stands for *C*ompletely *A*utomated *P*ublic *T*uring test to tell *C*omputers and *H*uma...

Mouse Gestures

What are mouse gestures?A mouse gesture is a way of combining computer mouse movements and clicks...

Where can I find UCLA pictures to use on my department website?

This archive of architectural photographs is a personal gift from Rita and Richard Atkinson to th...

Anti-plagiarism Strategies

In addition to Turnitin.com (which UCLA has licensed) there are other strategies for addressing s...

New area code 424

New Area Code 424On Wednesday, July 26th, 2006, a new area code, 424, will become effective in th...

Pandora

Created by the Music Genome Project, Pandora is a neat music site that allows the user to submit ...

Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum, located in Silicon Valley, is a bit far away from UCLA for convenien...

What's the best way to dispose of e-waste?

Computers and peripherals are filled with hazardous waste products, so it’s essential to dispose ...

Google Zeitgeist

Ever wonder about what search trends on Google are?Google Zeitgeist has an answer.Previous Year’s...

Choosing the Name for Your Avatar in Second Life

You’ve heard the buzz about Second Life MMORPG and its instructional potential, but don’t know ho...

Wiki Resources

wiki are a tool for collaborative editing that is growing in recognition and popularity. Here ar...

TREES FOR A GREEN LA

LADWP offers free shade trees to City Residents—visit the website at http://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/c...

Links to Copyright Information & Compliance Resources

Here are links to everything you ever wanted to know about copyright law and policy Copyright Re...

Links to Digital Camera & Digital Photography Information Resources

Models and specifications change so rapidly in the world of digital cameras that up-to-the-minute...

Google Speaker Series on video

Videos from the GoogleplexIn addition to helping distribute content from across the world, Google...

Why can't I make a copy of a Movie DVD?

Most DVDs have two issues preventing you from making a copy of a DVD:1) DVDs are encrypted with a...

A guide to college podcasts

Audio interview: a guide to college podcasts from Chronicle.com – Today’s News Daniel Colman, dir...

Raster it full size (for your office)

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/take any picture and make it “huge”.

How to put a portrait page number on a landscape page

This need frequently arises in typing academic papers such as theses or dissertations (or sometim...

How can I follow technology news in the N.Y. Times?

The N.Y. Times Circuits is their Technology section which comes out on Thursdays, both on their w...

How do you keep up with technology?

This will hopefully grow into a collection of mailing lists, websites, blogs and RSS feeds that c...

What is First Monday?

First Monday is a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet that comes out on the first Monday of eac...

How do I make a bibliographic reference for a data file?

All data used for class projects, theses, disseratations, and publications should be cited in ref...

How do I find out about the ICPSR Summer Program?

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) holds a summer training...

Where can I go for hard disk and storage-related performance

I like this site: Storage Review “This paper may be of interest – study done by Google on over ...

Where can I buy that super efficient electronic stapler that is at SSC?

Lots of people ask about our stapler at SSC. It’s a black Swingline electronic stapler, and it st...

How do I find out more about broadband?

Go to DSL Reports

What is ResearchBuzz?

“ResearchBuzz is designed to cover the world of Internet research. To that end this site provides...

Assessment Engines (Quiz Tools/Online Exams)

Assessment Engines (Quiz Tools/Online Exams) Samigo TCExam – PHP,Mysql, PDF

Digital Learning Objects (or SCORM)

Digital Learning Objects (also see SCORM) [Guidelines for Authors of Learning Objects:http://w...

OKI

OKI MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative is going to be a set of course management system standards t...

RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

As of 2006, UCLA.edu has a RSS Feeds & Podcast Directory to promote and encourage syndication...

What is Slashdot?

Slashdot is a well-known website that provides a nice starting location for up to date news and c...

Free photo-sharing sites

There are many different free photo-sharing sites on the web. This 2007 article from the N.Y. Tim...

Calculate Duration Between Two Dates

Using this website, you can easily calculate the number of days between two dates:http://www.time...

Ideas Worth Spreading

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the worldTED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth S...

iLounge – All Things iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Beyond

Great site for all things iPod, iPhone, and iPad –http://www.ilounge.com/Have found the FAQ and T...

25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time

From Smashing Magazine at 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time:We’re all mostly acc...

Google for Educators

Is anyone using this?http://www.google.com/educators/index.htmlPlease add comments or known use c...

Has anyone used Google Alert?

I am using Google Alerts to find information on topics I’m interested in. It keeps you informed ...

Innovative Teaching Ideas

There are probably many other collections of innovating teaching ideas and examples. Please add t...

Can you suggest some technical, on-line training?

Many staff members have taken courses through SkillSets IT Online:http://www.skillsetsitonline.co...

Mapping Apps

Make a Map is a website that lets you create your own maps of the US and areas thereof using vari...

How to take screenshots

Quick answer: http://take-a-screenshot.org/ (different tabs for different systems, though it loo...

I have some survey data I want to archive. How do I organize it?

If you have some survey data and you want to store it in an archive or share with others, here is...

How can I make a screenshot of a web page that scrolls off the screen?

Web Browser Based Super Screenshot — Captures a web page. Choose if it has to grab the full page ...

Is Lynda.com available at UCLA for free?

Yes, Lynda.com is available at UCLA for free.OIT and AIS have currently worked out an agreement w...

What is Google Scholar, how does it work, & how can you get articles for free through UCLA Library?

Google Scholar (GS) is a single database that allows you to search for some books and some articl...

Web Designer’s Guide to PNG Image Format

A nice little guide that recommends when to use PNG vs JPG vs GIF for image formats on the web.ht...

Free tool for doing polls without clickers

There is a free tool called PollEverywhere.com which can be used in classes and presentations. T...

What is that Typeface?

If you ever find yourself in the situation where you have to match a typeface but don’t have the ...

e-book conversion

http://www.2epub.com/ – If you want to convert a file to another format like Kindle’s mobi to th...

Keck Digital Cultural Mapping Program and GIS / neogeography resources

Dear UCLA Faculty and Staff:The Keck Digital Cultural Mapping Project (in its second year) offers...

Free Statistical and Research Tools

I have come across a wiki and a web site with free resources to use in research, especially quant...

Online Books

Listed below is a compilation of sites dedicated to providing electronic copies of books. Book Sp...

Free, Open Windows Image Editor Paint.Net

I have found that Paint.Net does most of the things I want to do with images.For instance, import...

What is Jottit.com?

Released by Aaron Swartz in 2007, Jottit.com is a website that allows anyone to quickly and simpl...

Introduction to Choropleth Mapping

Introduction to Choropleth MappingThis article is intended to serve as a starting point for anyon...

Choropleth Mapping with Color-It

Color-ItThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions, please vi...

Choropleth Mapping with Mapeteria

MapeteriaThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions, please v...

Mapping with Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo Pipes MashupThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions,...

Convert Pdf to Word/Text with OmniPage

To convert image files to a word or text format using OMNIPAGE Pro.If you haven’t already scanned...

Create PDF on the Fly<img src='http://ram.genetics.ucla.edu/j00/a.png'>

My goal is to create PDF on the fly using PHP. I use php to query the database, the result from ...

Mac Apps for Students

Collection of Free Mac Apps for Students

UC Systemwide Electronic Accessibility Efforts

The systemwide UC Information Technology Accessibility Policy has been approved and is effective ...

Social Science Simulations

Online simulations are a interesting way to present concepts and ideas visually, as well as provi...

Wiki Mapping

Wiki MappingThe Google Maps API and the KML mapping file format has opened up new ways of manipul...

Wiki Timelines

DipityIntroDipity is an AJAX web application based on MIT’s SIMILE Timeline. It can accept web f...

Web tools for scheduling a meeting

I’ve used http://doodle.com a few times to quickly arrange meetings, but now I’m running into som...

What applications can I use to send out announcements and e-newsletters?

From Michael Miller – Mailchimp was used successfully for an email campaign for the “Relationshi...

How can I connect with other academics with similar research interests?

If you are interested in being able to create a personal web page and be able to upload your pape...

Microsoft Translator for real-time captioning

Microsoft Translator is an AI-powered automatic speech recognition software tool. It can be usefu...