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A tool for trawling through a ton of email looking for the good stuff. Includes visualizations.
Telling lies with data.
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The field of science is firmly on our radar as a vertical with huge interest in and opportunities for the things that are foundational to O'Reilly's world view: openness,...
Why PDF sucks.
If done correctly, the administration's triple challenge to the status quo can make information sharing with the public and other agencies a routine byproduct, rather than a special case.
The NSA can't capture everything that crosses the Internet—but doesn't need to.
Data mining is troubling for some of the same reasons that social science in general is troubling. It suggests that our actions are legible from a perspective we don’t immediately possess, an…
International attention to scientific data continues to grow. Opportunities emerge to re-visit long-standing approaches to managing data and to critic …
"This study found two key determinants affecting researchers' willingness to publish their data. First is data management in terms of data management skills and organization support. Second is the acknowledgement of the data set's originator in terms of appreciation and legal and policy requirements."
Amid a legal dispute, journal downgrades a retraction to an expression of concern | Retraction Watch
The journal Cell Cycle is expressing a “note” of concern about a 2012 paper by a former researcher at the University of Minnesota, who has claimed that her mentor at the institution was…
On May 9, President Obama signed an open data executive order and released an open data policy. Only a couple of weeks later, on May 22, Data.gov responded by launching a new data catalog on an open source data management system called CKAN, which, the site says, will enable the central implementation of the Open Data Policy, as it will harvest the data inventories that federal agencies will be creating under the directive. LJ caught up with members of the library and data-driven research communities to see what this may mean for their missions.