The Book of Trogool turns another page...
- Social scientists and medical researchers, pay attention to this: "Anonymized" data really isn't—and here's why not. If informaticists aren't starting to run similar analyses on their own "anonymized" data, they should be. This is a serious concern.
- One for the humanists: the rather vaguely-named Scholarly Communication Institute Report from Virginia. The theme was using spatial data in the humanities.
- From my SciBling Christina: Anybody can code… but should you? Peer review is for more than published papers. Holding your code close to your chest probably means you're writing unnecessarily bad code. Trust me. I write a lot of bad code.
- The data tell the story. Government data in this case, but imagine what could be done with research data! Imagine!
- What is the scientific paper? A sensible outsider's view. Money quote for our purposes: "Like it or not, science increasingly depends on data being published in public machine readable formats."
Personal note: I may be a little scarce around these parts for the next little while. I have three presentations to give in the next six weeks, none of them the same, none of them finished yet. In fact, two of them are but gleams in the back of my cerebellum. This is eating most of my off-work time at present.
Hope your Hump Day was fruitful.
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