Posts tagged with “Data” (All posts)

Creating a Language Placement Dashboard

5 December 2017

This term I have been working with some academic technologists to start the process of creating a dashboard for language placement exams. This most recent meeting is a continuation of…

Modernizing Mail Merge with Google Forms

5 October 2017

Problem Every term at Carleton, the registrar office has to send every teaching professor an email asking them if they want their class to use self-scheduled exams that term. Until…

New Workflow

Sketching a Backend for Language Placement Tests

5 October 2017

Sometimes, projects come around that DataSquad can’t directly contribute to because the scope of the project is longer than the time any one student will stay at the school. But…

The Grammarian’s dispute over the word Data

11 September 2017

If you’ve been involved with discussions that involve data, you might have noticed the dispute regarding its use. It seems that this dispute boils down to how one copes with…

Every Presidential Ad Ran in 2008

30 May 2017

Barbara Allen, a political science prof, approached the DataSquad for help redesigning graphs in her book for better clarity and to meet publisher standards. I was given a word document…

Converting Microsoft Office files to PDF files

28 May 2017

My project was to convert old Microsoft Office documents .doc/.xls/.ppt files to PDF format in order to better preserve the data. MS Word is one of the most popular word…

Using FileMaker to Design a User Interface for an Inventory Database

16 May 2017

My current project is to design a web and desktop user interface for a physics inventory database using FileMaker. The database is shared between Carleton and St. Olaf College and…

How-To: Use PDFs to Easily Collect Information from Forms

22 April 2017

Here’s a neat little tutorial to get you started with automatic data extraction from PDF forms! Step 1: Open your PDF in Adobe Acrobat (NOT Adobe Acrobat Reader. This system…