A colleague said to me “Everyone is running on fumes with Easter being so late this year.” Really? Is it late? I admit to being completely perplexed by this religious date and its movement around the calendar. I always feel like I am the last to know when it is, let alone whether it is early or late. Let’s have a look at what constitutes an early or a late Easter. The data are available here. This is a quick post with no code example (sorry).
Returning to the subject of personal knowledge graphs Kyle Scheer has an interesting repository of Markdown files that describe academic disciplines at https://github.com/kyletscheer/academic-disciplines (see his blog post for more background). If you add these files to Obsidian you get a nice visualisation of a taxonomy of academic disciplines.
Nous traduisons ici le dernier billet publié sur le blog Zotero : Stillman Dan, Zotero 6: Your research workflow, transformed , https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-6/, 17 mars 2022. Vous trouverez en supplément à la fin de ce billet l’avis de la rédaction, soit les nouveautés préférées de chacun d’entre nous.
TL;DR rsnps is a package that enables the retrieval of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from the NCBI’s dbSNP database and openSNP by providing wrappers for the APIs. Single nucleotide polymorphisms represent differences at one specific position in a detected biological sequence compared to the reference. ncbi_snp_query() now returns all reported variant allele frequencies in dbSNP in column maf_population in form of a tibble.
R-universe now has search! We made a series of structural improvements in r-universe to make it easier to browse and discover interesting R packages and articles. Most notably, the r-universe.dev landing page has been overhauled: you can now search directly for any name or keyword across the entire ecosystem: The homepage also lists the popular topics and organizations, and links to recently active packages, articles, and maintainers.
At rOpenSci, much of our code, content and infrastructure is hosted on GitHub over several organizations – described on our resources page.This post summarizes some steps we’ve taken to safeguard our GitHub organizations.Paying attention to access rights &
(by Daniel S. Katz and Tom Honeyman) There are a number of challenges in rewarding scholars for their work in software, including the fact that both software itself and the idea of it being of scholarly value are relatively new, particularly given the centuries of experience we have with journals and the Humboldtian university model.
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 R-universe gets advanced search! The landing page for rOpenSci’s R-universe platform has gotten a makeover to facilitate easy searching through thousands of available R packages and articles.
International collaboration has become very common in the production of scientific knowledge (Coccia and Wang, 2016; Monastersky &
More and more data is created, but meaningfully answer questions with this data is not straightforward because we need a shared understanding of what the different data means and how it relates.