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In Passing, Quick Comments On An OER Powered Digital Scholarship Resource Site
digitalscholarship.ac.uk is a new OER powered resource site intended to support the use of digital tools in academic study. Resources are both tagged and organised into a series of learning topics:...
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A Question About Klout…
I’ve no idea how Klout works out it’s scores, but I’m guessing that there is an element of PageRank style algorithmic bootstrapping going on, in which a person’s Klout score is influenced by the Klout...
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Ephemeral Citations – When Presentations You Have Cited Vanish from the...
A couple of months ago, I came across an interesting slide deck reviewing some of the initiatives that Narrative Science have been involved with, including the generation of natural language...
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Paying for Dropbox and Other Useful Bits… (The Cost of Doing Business…)
A couple of years ago or so, Dropbox ran a promotion for academic users granting 15GB of space. Yesterday, I got an email: As part of your school’s participation in Space Race, you received 15 GB of...
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Authoring Dynamic Documents in IPython / Jupyter Notebooks?
One of the reasons I started writing the Wrangling F1 Data With R book was to see how it felt writing combined text, code and code output materials in the RStudio/RMarkdown context. For those of you...
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Communicating Data – Different Takes
A couple of recent articles on bias in the justice system recently caught my eye that show different models of engagement around data analysis in a particular topic area: Hester, Rhys, and Todd K....
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Programming, Coding & Digital Skills
I keep hearing myself in meetings talking about the “need” to get people coding, but that’s not really what I mean, and it immediately puts people off because I’m not sure they know what...
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Practical DigiSchol – Refinding Lost Recent Web History
I don’t know to what extent our current courses equip folk for the future (or even the present), but here’s a typical example of something I needed to figure out a solution to a problem (actually, more...
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Fragment – Virtues of a Programmer, With a Note On Web References and Broken...
Ish-via @opencorporates, I came across the “Virtues of a Programmer”, referenced from a Wikipedia page, in a Nieman Lab post by Brian Boyer on Hacker Journalism 101,, and stated as follows: Laziness: I...
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Name (Date) Title, Available at: URL (Accessed: DATE): So What?
Academic referencing is designed, in part, to support the retrieval of material that is being referenced, as well as recognising provenance. The following guidance, taken from the OU Library’s Academic...
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