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by houshuang 14y ago
I'll be following this post, since I'm in the same situation (well, in the middle of a graduate program, having done quant classes with SPSS, which I could never grow to like, and now discovering and learning R for my research). There's a l
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by houshuang 14y ago
Here are a bunch of screenshots of my self-built academic productivity system - focused on reading PDFs, taking notes, extracting to a wiki, working on notes etc. http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:screenshots
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MIT MediaLab: Learning creative learning(learn.media.mit.edu)
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Slidify: Stunning presentation from Markdown(ramnathv.github.com)
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by houshuang 14y ago
Totally agree with you on academia needing this. I know a bunch of people (including myself) who are interested in trying new ways of authoring papers, theses etc - whether it's MarkDown, latex etc. But once you need to collaborate with som
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DataShop: data repository and analysis service for learning science community(learnlab.org)
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by houshuang 14y ago
There have been several data science/analytics courses etc offered based on R lately, on Coursera, Udacity, etc. Have anyone had good experiences with any of them? I would also love to see a similar course based on iPython/Pandas etc.
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Making Open Access articles much more visible, automatically(reganmian.net)
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Tag-extract: A tool to automatically restructure text/outline using tags(reganmian.net)
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Integrating iPhone photography with wiki for note-taking during conference (reganmian.net)
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by houshuang 14y ago
If people have made this mistake, is there a way of getting it out of the public archive (short of shutting down the repository), or will it forever sit there, part of the indelible history?
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by houshuang 14y ago
Most of the comments are discussing interruptions in general, and could have been posted on any article about programmer working situation etc, but I think some of the most interesting in this blog post is the attempt to measure cognitive/m
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by houshuang 14y ago
Nice short article: 10 things you can do to really support Open Access: http://phylogenomics.blogspot.de/2013/01/10-things-you-can-d...
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by houshuang 14y ago
Let me know if you want to discuss further - I've lot's of ideas, but not able to make most of it happen by myself. For example, here are a bunch of (unfinished) notes about an open alternative to Google Scholar, and open social API to shar
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by houshuang 14y ago
An important thing to remember, is that many journals already permit self-archiving of publications (ie. uploading a pre-print to a personal server or an institutional repository). In fact, about 70% of large publishers automatically allow
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by houshuang 14y ago
For someone who has been working on OA and scholarly publications for a few years, it's a bit tricky to enter these kinds of debates. On the one hand, I want to respect Aaron's legacy, and am very touched by the spontaneous and organized mo
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by houshuang 14y ago
As long as these PDFs are exposed publicly (and linked to, which a tweet with or without #pdftribute will take care of), they will mostly be indexed by Google Scholar, which does a decent job of extracting metadata using heuristics etc. Of
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Watch the Next Web Conference in your language(babelverse.com)
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by houshuang 15y ago
I spent quite a bit of time on the first link, but I also quite like this one. I think to me a lot of the value is just gradually introducing a few characters at a time - not really sure about how much my brain is picking up the shapes of t
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by houshuang 15y ago
Not sure if this is worth the effort, but brilliant approach to learning. I've often had fun playing with inventing my own alphabets and stuff -- if you could actually learn to read this font at a decent speed, it would be fun to click a bo
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by houshuang 15y ago
Also doesn't track when people go directly to download your files, for example finding PDFs through Google Scholar.
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by houshuang 15y ago
Another advantage of "native" analytics is to capture downloads of all file types. Google Analytics does not know about your PDF downloads (unless there is something I don't know about), and or me that is quite important. I hope you figure