The online survey system Qualtrics can be a great way to collect data from research participants, customers, and stakeholders. I use it frequently to conduct research studies with participants or just to poll students and collaborators.
The online survey system Qualtrics can be a great way to collect data from research participants, customers, and stakeholders. I use it frequently to conduct research studies with participants or just to poll students and collaborators.
In January I woke up one day and couldn't move my right arm and leg properly. As I have high blood pressure, and my father had a stroke the exact day seven years ago, I worried that I might have a stroke and went to the emergency room of the local university hospital.
Package yfR recently passed peer review at rOpenSci and is all about downloading stock price data from Yahoo Finance (YF). I wrote this package to solve a particular problem I had as a teacher: I needed a large volume of clean stock price data to use in my classes, either for explaining how financial markets work or for class exercises. While there are several R packages to import raw data from YF, none solved my problem.
The first time I flew over the North Atlantic was quite an experience. Through the clouds, I could see some little white boats out sailing in the sea. It was puzzling: from 30,000 feet, those boats must have been huge for me to be able to see them at all.
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci Code of Conduct update We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of our Code of Conduct.
In this post I will provide some examples of what has changed between rtweet 0.7.0 and rtweet 1.0.2.I hope both the changes and this guide will help all users.I highlight the most important and interesting changes in this blog post, and for a full list of changes you can consult it on the NEWS. Big breaking changes More consistent output This is probably what will affect the most users.All functions that return data about
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 2.4 of our Code of Conduct with changes based on the feedback of our community.What’s new? Greater detail about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in online settings.First translation of the text to Spanish. You can access now the last version full-text in English and Spanish. We welcome your feedback by email to conduct at ropensci.org.
Cross-posted by Better Scientific Software (BSSw) and ReSA. How can we reframe research software engineering (RSE) to place diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a central organising principle in the community? This compelling question was the impetus for the Vive la différence - research software engineers workshop, a hybrid event that took place both in person at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, from 19-22 April 2022;
Cross-posted by Better Scientific Software (BSSw) and ReSA . How can we reframe research software engineering (RSE) to place diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a central organising principle in the community?
JOSS is continuing to grow, and we are looking to add more editors with expertise in the area of astronomy & astrophysics. Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled nearly 1900 submissions (1684 published at the time of writing, 205 under review) and the demand from the community continues to grow. In particular, we have seen an increase in the number of astronomy &