1. Managing a Miasma of Statistics
Benjamin Heet
University of Notre Dame
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2. What stats should we collect?
How do we manage what we collect?
How do we use and interpret the data?
What are best practices going forward?
3. What should we collect?
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Impact factor
Eigenfactor
SFX
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4. Can we make questionable numbers more meaningful by
adding other questionable numbers?
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5. What does it all mean?
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Outlier – Use Spikes
9. Keeping Busy
Download new stats each
month for every provider
Merge new month onto prior
report
Using Excel v-lookup function
Why are we doing this?