Useful Links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://goo.gl/fxZx3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 – Sep. 21, 2015 – “Easy ways to educate yourself amid e...

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

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

Princeton releases Bitcoin textbook freely available draft pdf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Go to DSL Reports

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collection of Free Mac Apps for Students

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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