Last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy hosted a “Big Data” R&D event, which was broadcast live on the internet (recording available here,…
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This post was co-authored by Dr. Michael Weiner, CIND director at UCSF The DataShare project is a collaboration between University of California San Francisco’s Clinical…
Survey says…
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A few weeks ago we reached out to the scientific community for help on the direction of the DCXL project. The major issue at hand…
Data Publishing–the First 500 Years
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Data publishing is the new hot topic in a growing number of academic communities. The scholarly ecosophere is filled with listserv threads, colloquia and conference…
The Science of the DeepSea Challenge
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Recently the film director and National Geographic explorer-in-residence James Cameron descended to the deepest spot on Earth: the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. He partnered…
Hooray for Progress!
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Great news on the DCXL front! We are moving forward with the Excel add-in and will have something to share with the community this summer.…
The Digital Dark Age, Part 2
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Earlier this week I blogged about the concept of a Digital Dark Age. This is a phrase that some folks are using to describe some…
The Digital Dark Age, Part 1
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This will be known as the Digital Dark Age. The first time I heard this statement was at Internet Archive, during the PDA 2012 Meeting…
Fun Uses for Excel
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It’s Friday! Better still, it’s Friday afternoon! To honor all of the hard work we’ve done this week, let’s have some fun with Excel. Check…
Why You Should Floss
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No, I won’t be discussing proper oral hygiene. What I mean by “flossing” is actually “backing up your data”. Why the floss analogy? Here are the similarities between…