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Providing meaningful information: Part C—Data management and visualization

Lisa Federer    National Institutes of Health Library, Bethesda, MD, United States

Abstract

This chapter provides an introduction to how informationists can support one of the biggest challenges that researchers and medical professionals now face: how to deal with the rapidly increasing data deluge. With the size of research and clinical data growing exponentially, and with new policies from funders and journals, researchers and clinicians need help to ensure that they are able to work effectively with their data in ways that comply with requirements but do not present an undue burden. Specifically, this chapter considers how informationists can provide support ...

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