PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2015 by Judith Appelbaum, Editor, IBPA Independent Search for “how-to” in the trove of Independent articles available on the IBPA site and you’ll get 2,221 results, with an implicit message screaming, “Refine your search!” How you refine it will obviously vary, depending on what publishing activity you want help with at any particular time. …

PUBLISHED APRIL 2014 by Judith Appelbaum, Editor, IBPA Independent A Note from the Editor: Today’s abundance—or is it overabundance—of data includes everything from “big data,” through the kinds of data that Linda Carlson reports on in this issue, to “anecdata.” “Big data,” often defined as data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems, …