DATA SCIENCE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF

LIBRARY INFORMATION SCIENCE

Irhamni Ali
Ph.D. Student in the Department of Information Science
University of North Texas
fnuirhamni@my.unt.edu

Universitas Islam Negeri – Imam Bonjol

October, 24th 2021
 Personal Information
Name : Irhamni
Professional Information
Current Employer : College of Information - University of North Texas
Current Address : UNT Discovery Park N.Elm Street suite 292
Denton TX 76203 ( fnuirhamni@my.unt.edu )
Current Position : Ph.D Student
Government Data Assistant - Sycamore Library - University of North Texas
Education :
Bachelor : Library and Information Science Universitas Indonesia : 2000-2005
Master : Computer Science Dept. IPB University : 2011-2014
Doctoral : Fulbright Scholarship at College of Information - Data Science Concentration –
University of North Texas : 2020 – Present
Profesional Social Media
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/irhamni-ali-3985b455/
Pubication
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irhamni_Ali2
Awards & Scholarship
➢ University of North Texas Law and Legal Scholarship Award
➢ Fulbright Ph.D Scholarship 2020-2023
➢ Best Promising Future Library Leader In ASEAN By International Network On Emerging Library Inovators - Asean (INELI-ASEAN) •
Vietnam• November 2017
➢ Best Collaborative Project Team Leader By International Network On Emerging Library Innovators - ASEAN (INELI-ASEAN) • Singapore•
October 2016
➢ International Federation Of Library Association And Institution (IFLA) Asia And Oceania Grant In United States Of America. August
2016
INFORMATION THEORIES

• Information has become complex since

it has many contexts: the Information-
as-process, information-as-
knowledge, and information-as-thing
and Information is also not considered
as new representations of something
or other but also as regard as a
discourse of our representations in any
ordinary sense (Buckland, 1999).

Photo : https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines

Buckland, S. (1999). The landscape of information science: The American Society for Information. In Journal
of the American Society for Information Science (Vol. 50).
 • The complexity of Information
created on how the information
behavior:
• Information As a Subject
• Information As an Object

Bates, M. J. (1999). The Invisible Substrate of Information Science. Journal of The American For
Information Science , 1043–1050.
Information as subject
Information as a subject basicly is about the
essential nature of information, since it is
fundamental to our existence, has been
considered by many disciplines, including
communications theory, library and
information science, information systems,
cognitive science, and organization science
(Rowley, 2007).
There are six approaches to the definition of
information (Floridi,2002) respectively:
• The Communication Theory Approach,
• The Probabilistic Approach,
• The Modal Approach,
• The Systemic Approach,
• Rowley, J. (2007). The wisdom hierarchy: Representations of the DIKW hierarchy. Journal of
Information Science, 33(2), 163–180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551506070706 • The Inferential Approach, And The
• Floridi, L. (2002). What is the philosophy of information? Metaphilosophy, 33(1/2), 123–145.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24439320 • Semantic Approach.
 Information as an Object

• Information as an object also concern

about the body of knowledge relating
to the origination, collection,
organization, storage, retrieval,
interpretation, transmission,
transformation, and utilization of
information from both perspective the
individuals and the organizations.

Bates, M. J. (1999). The Invisible Substrate of Information Science. Journal of The American For
Information Science , 1043–1050.
What is Data Science ?
Data science is a
discipline that
provides principles,
methodology and
guidelines for the
analysis of data for
tools, values, or
insights (Yan, D., &
Davis, G.E. (2019). A
First Course in Data
Science. Journal of
Statistics Education,
27, 99 – 109)
Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC-c7E5PK0Y
CONCEPT OF DATA SCIENCE

Source :
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/10/l
earn-data-science-8-steps.html
But Why Solving Problems With Data?

World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs

Components of Data Science

• Statistics : Deskriptive Stats, Inferencial

statistics
• Data Engineering : Data manipulation,
Data cleaning.
• Advance Computing : Artificial
intelligence, Machine learning, Deep
Learning
• Data Visualization : Data Story telling,
data analytics
• Domain Expertise : Your Passion !!
 DATA SCIENCE TOOLS : DATABASE TOOLS

Source : UNT Data Science Organization

https://unt.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/datascience

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 DATA SCIENCE TOOLS : TECHNIQUES

Source : UNT Data Science Organization

https://unt.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/datascience 13
 DATA SCIENCE TOOLS : SOFTSKILLS

Source : UNT Data Science Organization

https://unt.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/datascience

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Data Science Tool
Learning Source of Data Science
 Data Science Demanding areas of Research

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 Data Science Demanding areas of Research

Library ?

https://towardsdatascience.com/major-topics-and-career-paths-in-data-science-467a429e364e

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Library Data Scientist !
Learn the Three core aspects of Data Analysis :
1. Exploration:
• Identifying patterns in the data
• Uses Visualization
2. Inference:
• Using data to draw a reliable conclusion about
world
• Uses Statistics
3. Prediction:
• Making informed guesses about unobserved data
• Use Machine learning and AI
Source : data8.org

Photo : Private Collection

The Implementation Of Data Science in The
Library

• Exploratory data Analysis :

• Finding the most in your library like - > Most Use Books, most library users.
The Implementation Of Data Science in The
Library

• Association Data Mining

• Library Promotion
• Library Collection
Development
Association Rule Mining

tran1 cust33 p2, p5, p8

Circulation tran2 cust45 p5, p8, p11 market-basket
records: tran3 cust12 p1, p9
data
tran4 cust40 p5, p8, p11
tran5 cust12 p2, p9
tran6 cust12 p9

• Trend: Products p5, p8 often bough together

• Trend: Customer 12 likes product p9

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The Implementation Of Data Science in The
Library

• Artificial Intelligence
• Classification
• Indexing
• Deep and Machine Learning
• Data Clustering → Automatic Text
prediction
Clustering

income

education

age

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Its All about Computational Thinking
Decomposition: Breaking down data, processes, or problems into
smaller, manageable parts
Pattern Recognition: Observing patterns, trends, and regularities
in data
Algorithm Design: Developing the step-by-step instructions for
solving this and similar problems
Abstraction (Story telling) : Identifying the general principles that
generate these patterns by focusing on the important information
only, ignoring irrelevant details; applying to similar problems
 Library Problem with Data: Case in Indonesia
• Still consider not a fancy issue
• Data Governance Policy (Data Governance
is the power relations between all the
actors affected by, or having an effect on,
the way data is accessed, controlled, shared
and used, the various socio-technical
arrangements set in place to generate value
from data, and how such value is
redistributed between actors (Ponti, et.al.,
2020, p.3)
• No Clear bibliographic data Policy
• Not many librarian have passionate in this
field

Micheli, M., Ponti, M., Craglia, M., & Berti Suman, A. (2020). Emerging models of data governance in the age of datafication. Big Data & Society, 7.
 Conducted by : Irhamni Ali
College of Information
Ph.D. Student in the Department of Information Science
University of North Texas
fnuirhamni@my.unt.edu

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