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2015-03-05 18:19:44     Scientists threatened by demands to share data | Al Jazeera America

http://america.aljazeera.com/...nedbydemandstosharedata.html

But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

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2012-07-26 18:12:30     What It's Like to Teach a MOOC (and What the Heck's a MOOC?) - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../260000/

But because MOOCs are so new, and so limited before yest... first-hand discussion of what it's like to teach one has... current MOOC moment began less than a year ago, when Sta... free, chunked artificial intelligence course online, and... signed up.

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2017-03-23 07:59:41     Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/

But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe

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2016-04-29 11:52:12    

https://www.newscientist.com/...es-our-feelings-about-words/

But keyboards may have an impact on the emotional associations we have with words as well. It has been found that words consisting of a higher proportion of letters from the right-hand side of a QWERTY keyboard – those from “y”, “h⮮.

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2014-02-17 10:13:36     U. of the People earns accreditation, challenging view that agencies stifle innovation | Inside Higher Ed

http://www.insidehighered.com/...-agencies-stifle-innovation

But last week brought word of a very different kind of a... outcome, one that arguably challenges parts of that meme... Education and Training Council gave its stamp of approva... the People, a five-year-old global, online institution t...
The univers

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2015-04-08 12:41:39     Gestalt Principles for Data Visualization: Similarity, Proximity & Enclosure

http://emeeks.github.io/gestaltdataviz/section1.html

But let me suggest that gestalt is very much a pragmatic... data visualization, in fact a necessary aspect if you pl... simple bar and line charts (and perhaps even for those s... exploration of three of the most simple gestalt principl... they operat

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2013-01-06 13:37:43     Data-driven science is a failure of imagination | R you cereal?

http://www.petrkeil.com/?p=302

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

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2015-02-27 22:38:37     Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...thod-statistical-errors-1.14700?...

But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared

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2014-03-08 14:05:07     Dark thoughts: why mental illness is on the rise in academia | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

http://www.theguardian.com/...ng-problem-pressure-university

But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health iss... little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground.
However, a study published in 2013 by the University and ...

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2017-04-10 07:21:46     Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe · An A List Apart Article

https://alistapart.com/article/culturalprobe

By analyzing the results of your cultural probe, you can... of how users behave: what they love and hate, what motiv... what they do and why. Solutions based on this knowledge ... give users what they need, rather than what they say the... also help i

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2010-11-15 09:00:28     YouTube - 3D Video Capture with Kinect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrnwoO1-8A&feature=youtu.be

By combining the color and the depth image captured by t... Kinect, one can project the color image back out into sp... "holographic" representation of the persons or objects t...
No project page yet, but it will go up on my regular web ...
Based on th

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2011-03-02 08:47:18     Measuring Bias in "Organic" Web Search

http://www.benedelman.org/searchbias/

By comparing results between leading search engines, we ... in their algorithmic search listings. We find that each ... favors its own services in that each search engine links... services more often than other search engines do so. But... engines pro

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2010-11-03 11:42:56     Expedia on how one extra data field can cost $12m | Sales & Marketing | silicon.com

http://www.silicon.com/...-data-field-can-cost-12m-39746554/

By Nick Heath, 1 November 2010 16:15
NEWS
Online travel firm Expedia has found that data analytics ...
Facebook
... e that what we are doing is worth something?'," he said.

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2010-06-29 12:47:14     google-caja - Project Hosting on Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/

Caja allows websites to safely embed DHTML web applicati... parties, and enables rich interaction between the embedd... embedded applications. It uses an object-capability secu... allow for a wide range of flexible security policies, so... containing

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2010-08-04 07:15:28     Star Trek Stardate Calculator

http://www.hillschmidt.de/gbr/sternenzeit.htm

Calculate the Stardate of the Star Trek Future!

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2006-12-30 09:59:52     Blake Ross on Firefox » Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose.

http://www.blakeross.com/2006/12/25/google-tips/

Call me naive: I think you can make a lot of money, go p... monopolize a market, and still retain a moral compass th... direction of Google’s stated top priority—users.
But Google lost me today:
Google is now displaying “tips” that point searche

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2012-03-02 19:20:20     callimachus - A framework for data-driven applications based on Linked Data. - Google Project Hosting

http://code.google.com/p/callimachus/

Callimachus is a framework for data-driven applications ...
Callimachus allows Web developers to quickly and easily ...
Please see the installation instructions, then the Calli ...
Callimachus includes some sample applications to help ge ...
... RQL fro

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2015-02-28 08:30:01     The ethical blindness of algorithms - Quartz

http://qz.com/343750/the-ethical-blindness-of-algorithms/

Can an algorithm be racist? It’s a question that shoul... all data-driven organizations.

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2012-11-15 08:06:41     Sometimes mob rule works | Article | The Punch

http://www.thepunch.com.au/arti.../sometimes-mob-rule-works/

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best.

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2012-10-04 17:55:11     World’s first REAL commercial open data curation project! | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

http://blog.okfn.org/...mmercial-open-data-curation-project/

Can you think of an open data curation project where the...
In the mid 1990s, as open source code began to boom, the ...
For years I’ve asked, where are the equivalent project ...
Nada.
... and how it was finally opened up in an incomplete form.

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2012-01-31 13:32:38     Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms - Nihilogic

http://blog.nihilogic.dk/...s-visualizations-of-sorting.html

Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms canvas, java... Willison, I was made aware of an old but interesting pos... visualizing of sorting algorithms. Aldo Cortesi explains...
He decided to make something better and ended up with so ...
Anyway, I t

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2008-11-24 12:22:33     Cap Cyborg to chip 11 year old in wake of UK child killings • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/02/cap_cyborg_to_chip/

Captain Cyborg, aka Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading U... generally a harmless if somewhat tedious self-publicist ... 'experiments' pay his rent and provide the less critical...
Following the recent abduction of ten year olds Holly We ...
And guess w

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2016-01-04 17:21:54    

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/carbon-clock/

Carbon concentration up counter

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2013-02-02 09:24:22     Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/...e-engineered-beautiful-revolution

Cards are like a digital equivalent to the traditional a... concept of marrying form and function — so that the wa... inseparable from what the thing is. "These are objects,"... feel, not necessarily real, but they feel virtual. They⮮. be fake thi

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2009-06-22 14:27:35     slowLab > projects >slowMail

http://www.slowlab.net/slowmail.html

Carolyn Strauss and Julian Bleecker's slowMail is an ema... deliberately slows down the pace of electronic correspon... experiences of reflection and mindful interaction that a...
Contrary to traditional email, which is expected to be d ...
slowMail wa

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2009-01-13 09:04:29     Carrot2 - Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine

http://project.carrot2.org/

Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engi... automatically organize small collections of documents, e... results, into thematic categories.

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2012-09-06 10:55:41     BBC News - Denmark pioneers hi-tech graveyard memorials with QR code

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19267930

Carrying a posy of bright flowers, Dorthe Frydenlund str...
Mrs Frydenlund is among those pioneering a novel way to ...
Nestling amongst the colourful plants and vases is a sto ...
Mrs Frydenlund's 14-year-old son Nikolai has a smartphon ...
... ph of h

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2013-12-19 15:22:09     MediaMonkey » Information » Gold

http://www.mediamonkey.com/information/gold/

Catalog your physical CDs and use the Virtual CD feature... what CDs you own and at the same time see which subset o... CDs are copied to your hard drive. Instead of tracking y... separately, the virtual CD function gives you an integra...

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2005-11-12 11:42:45     ToolbarStudio custom toolbar software free download. Create toolbar for your site with ToolbarStudio - increase your revenues and repeat traffic. Build your toolbar using toolbar wizard, start from the t...

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/..._toolbar_software.html

catalogue
Enlarge screenshot
ToolbarStudio custom toolbar software 1.5
Developer: BestToolbars.net
... File size: 6368K

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2012-07-26 09:34:20     Cats have nine lives and 72-hour days - Junk Charts

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/...lives-and-72-hour-days.html

Cats have nine lives and 72-hour days
So says this infographic (link). Reader John G. sent in ...
***
Johng

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