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July | 2015 | Helen Kara
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Posted by Helen Kara. Last week I received a #blimage challenge from @debsnet aka the édu flâneuse. When I came to the photo she had posted to inspire her challengees, it only took me a moment to link those overflowing hands with the data we researchers love to gather. You can do all sorts of things with data. For example, you can prepare data, code data, analyse data, synthesise data, visualise data. Present data and, if you’re like me, you can love data. In fact, I adore data! In the US and Full Fact.
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International work: the glamour and the reality | Helen Kara
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International work: the glamour and the reality. Posted by Helen Kara. Photo by Prayitno via Flickr. My first international assignment was in Damascus, Syria, in 2008. I went on behalf of Liverpool John Moores University. Aircon, swimming pool, room service… I’d never stayed anywhere so posh in my life, and I loved the luxury. My second international assignment is this coming autumn in Calgary, Canada. Of course Canada is very different from Syria: politics, weather, level of freedom, food pretty muc...