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Ten quick tips for using a Raspberry Pi
Much of biology (and, indeed, all of science) is becoming increasingly computational. We tend to think of this in regards to algorithmic approaches and software tools, as well... -
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Articles whose authors make them Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them online are cited significantly more than articles accessible only to subscribers. Some have suggested... -
Global multi-layer network of human mobility
Recent availability of geo-localized data capturing individual human activity together with the statistical data on international migration opened up unprecedented opportunities... -
An iterative approach for generating statistically realistic populations of h...
Background: Many different simulation frameworks, in different topics, need to treat realistic datasets to initialize and calibrate the system. A precise reproduction of initial... -
How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and scie...
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded. Yet, finding statistical instruments... -
Research Software Development & Management in Universities: Case Studies ...
Modern research in the sciences, engineering, humanities, and other fields depends on software, and specifically, research software. Much of this research software is developed... -
Ten simple rules to create a serious game, illustrated with examples from str...
International audience; Serious scientific games are games whose purpose is not just fun. In the field of science, the serious goals include crucial activities for scientists:... -
User documentation and training at Belle II
Belle II is a rapidly growing collaboration with members from 113 institutes spread around the globe. The software development team of the experiment, as well as the... -
Are opinions based on science: modelling social response to scientific facts.
As scientists we like to think that modern societies and their members base their views, opinions and behaviour on scientific facts. This is not necessarily the case, even... -
Enhancing Big Data in the Social Sciences with Crowdsourcing: Data Augmentati...
The importance of big data is a contested topic among social scientists. Proponents claim it will fuel a research revolution, but skeptics challenge it as unreliably measured... -
Citizen Social Lab: A digital platform for human behaviour experimentation wi...
Cooperation is one of the behavioral traits that define human beings, however we are still trying to understand why humans cooperate. Behavioral experiments have been largely... -
Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data
This article offers a short guide to the steps scientists can take to ensure that their data and associated analyses continue to be of value and to be recognized. In just the... -
A Guide to Teaching Data Science
Demand for data science education is surging and traditional courses offered by statistics departments are not meeting the needs of those seeking training. This has led to a... -
A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures.
Background: The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. However, scientific activity has moved online over the past... -
Ten simple rules for collaborative lesson development
The collaborative development methods pioneered by the open source software community offer a way to create lessons that are open, accessible, and sustainable. This paper...
