Field fairly random questions from our contact form (list serve).
Some past examples:
Find data (this is common and usually kind of a pain, often its best sent to a liaison librarian)
Help with software ( Depends on what they are asking, often undoable)
R regular expression help
Scraping web pages and APIs for data
Help building databases (typically SQL but NoSQL as well)
Working wiht google big query to get data
Working with complex datasets
Given the variety of requests, there are a few solutions. If you or someone else has the skills then just give the help. Sometimes, its possible to quickly build the skills too. Otherwise, the best thing we can do is find the appropriate documentation, tutorials etc to help the person move forwsard.
Field fairly random questions from our contact form (list serve).
Some past examples:
Find data (this is common and usually kind of a pain, often its best sent to a liaison librarian)
Help with software ( Depends on what they are asking, often undoable)
R regular expression help
Scraping web pages and APIs for data
Help building databases (typically SQL but NoSQL as well)
Working wiht google big query to get data
Working with complex datasets
Given the variety of requests, there are a few solutions. If you or someone else has the skills then just give the help. Sometimes, its possible to quickly build the skills too. Otherwise, the best thing we can do is find the appropriate documentation, tutorials etc to help the person move forwsard.