Today I am relaunching the Syldavia Gazette blog on a new blogging platform, switching from Ghost to Quarto. This allows me to use Jupyter notebooks in the blog to help generate blog posts. The Syldavia Gazette (the other blog I manage besides the Front Matter blog) description says The Syldavia Gazette is a newsletter highlighting interesting science stories from around the web.
on the meeting point of cultural heritage and technology: Heritage Science. Looking at the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science and the need for FAIR data not only coming from digitized content but also from measurements of specialized scientific instruments.
Blogs participating in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive are now archived in the Internet Archive. Starting November 1st, Rogue Scholar is participating in the Internet Archive Archive-It service and all archived blogs can be found here.
The R-Universe is used by professionals from different fields, although they all pursue the same objective: to offer their R packages in a simple and accessible way . At rOpenSci we work to provide tools that facilitate access to data and research software generated with good software development practices and in a friendly community.
El Universo R es utilizado por profesionales de distintos ámbitos, aunque todos persiguen el mismo objetivo: ofrecer sus paquetes de R de manera simple y accesible . Desde rOpenSci trabajamos para ofrecer herramientas que faciliten el acceso a datos y software de investigación generado con buenas prácticas de desarrollo de software y en una comunidad amigable.
With an update launched yesterday, all blogs that participate in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive are now searchable by blog title, description, language, blogging platform, category (scientific field using the OECD Fields of Science and Technology), and ISSN.
the Halloween edition on scary data anti-patterns
Today I am happy to announce an important milestone for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. Starting November 1st, all blog posts from participating blogs will automatically be archived by the Internet Archive. Front Matter has signed a contract with Internet Archive to use their Archive-It service, and archiving will start in November.
The latest version of the opencv R package can detect and decode QR codes!# Install latest opencvinstall.packages("opencv", repos = "https://ropensci.r-universe.dev") There are two ways of using this: the ocv_qr_detect function tries to find the QR in an image file.
In a previous post, I looked at how Google Scholar ranks co-authors. While I had the data available I wondered whether paper authorship could be used in other ways. A few months back, John Cook posted about using Jaccard index and jazz albums. The idea is to look at the players on two jazz albums and examine the overlap.