Last month we were very proud to announce the launch of OrgRef – a completely free dataset sharing open data about the most important academic and research organizations worldwide. Reference data about organizations is important because it […]
The whole purpose of metrics and charts is to help answer two fundamental questions: “how are we doing?” and “what should we do next?”. For journal publishers, there are several different ‘vital signs’ to track […]
It’s the summer holiday season – a time to get away, relax and forget about all those recurring data tasks you have lined up. If you have those jobs automated, you can happily switch off […]
The term ‘market’ is often used in relation to academic journals (“what’s our market share?” and so on), but it’s not always entirely clear what that means, or how big ‘the market’ actually is. It’s […]
If you saw our blog article ‘Who ate all the pies?‘ a couple of months ago, you’ll know that we’re always on the lookout for new ways to make using MasterVision as clear and intuitive […]
Software as a service (SaaS) is everywhere these days, with high-profile success stories like Salesforce leading the charge of hosted business tools. When we launched MasterVision back in 2006, the term “SaaS” wasn’t in common […]
Here at DataSalon we’re constantly looking at how best to present data in clear and intuitive ways. Top of our ‘hit list’ was to come up with a better alternative to using the humble pie […]
One of the first steps on the path to data quality enlightenment is to audit the quality of your data. It’s useful to know the current state of play, to work out which data sources need your […]
I’m currently training for a marathon, and have been putting off sorting out the tons of running data gathered by my GPS watch. I haven’t been practicing what I preach when it comes to data […]
Recently we’ve been working on a new tagline – one which sums up everything we strive to achieve at DataSalon, on behalf of the many publishers we work with. We’re now pleased to unveil the […]
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