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My personal blog on open data, design, travel, and other stuff.
Traditional peer review is not enough to ensure data quality amid the recent boom in scientific research findings, according to results of a 10-year collaboration between NIST and five technical journals.
The open data movement is polarizing the scientific community
Yesterday (Oct. 8), Maurice Coleman and I gave a one-hour webinar entitled “Giving Your First Conference Presentation: What No One Tells...
“Machines are not going to organize data science research,” said Bin Yu, a statistician at the University of California, Berkeley, who works on high-dimensional data problems. “Humans have to lead the way.” But, she said, “no one knows who is leading data science right now.”
A useful history of the open access movement, through an Eisen-specific lens. Also good background on impact factor.
Big data is all the rage. Its proponents tout the use of sophisticated analytics to mine large data sets for insight as the solution to many of our society’s pr
By Damon E. Jaggars, Vice-Provost & Dean of The Ohio State University Libraries
As more and more business decisions are being made by looking at the data collected from our lives, what happens to the people who are generating no data at all?
Lots of worthwhile papers/posters.
The use of published digital data, like the use of digitally published literature, depends upon the ability to identify, authenticate, locate, access, …
Paywalled, but too good an overview to ignore.
How climate scientists test, test again, and use their simulation tools.
When it comes to public access, the tree of life has holes. A new study shows about 70 percent of published genetic sequence comparisons are not publicly accessible, leaving researchers worldwide unable to get to critical data they may need to tackle a host a problems ranging from climate change to disease control.
"The digital humanities is what digital humanists do." -- Rafael Alvarado, Day of DH (reprinted in "Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities" in Debates in the Digital Humanities) Alvarado's poi...