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This is the project planning page for **OU Libraries' Statistics Helper**. Statistics Helper is a **proposed interactive educational website to guide users to suitable statistics for their data and goals**. The range of books, papers, and online educational materials can be overwhelming for a researcher who is not sure where to start in analyzing their data. This tool will ask users questions about their goals and dataset to narrow down a curated list of resources and short glossary definitions, which will be presented to the user throughout the process. As the Research Support Working Group's listening sessions found (as well as casual conversation with faculty), faculty see a need for a statistical help center like they have had at previous institutions. The Statistics Helper tool will help that current librarians bridge that gap and triage requests for help while simultaneously educating customers. Choosing techniques for real, potentially messy data, is often outside the scope of what researchers learn in introductory statistics courses, even at the graduate level. The Statistics Helper tool will empower researchers in the data analysis process by providing a way to focus their reading on carefully curated choices that we have found particularly user-friendly, easy to read, or clear, reflecting the library process of a reference interview. It will help them connect what they've learned in classes to particularly clear, published examples of application and implementation. Additionally, we plan to synthesize supplemental definitions and glossaries to expedite user comprehension of common statistical terms and assumptions, which are rarely explained in non-technical ways, into short paragraphs with graphical illustrations where appropriate. This tool will differ from our existing Research Guides by its interactive nature (as the range of papers required to make this tool successful would be overwhelming as a single LibGuide page) as well as the creation of this original content. This tool is a starting point for researchers, not an end point. Datasets and goals outside the scope of tool's existing resource list will result in a suggesting the user make an appointment with their librarian or data specialist. Rather than providing all of the answers, this tool helps the patron formulate the best questions when they seek consultation. Learning the questions to ask is often the first step a researcher needs to take for a successful library interaction.
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