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"In the spirit of the well-circulated Facebook friendship map by Paul Butler, research analyst Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrix examines scientific collaboration around the world from 2005 to 2009:" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

Just went there again - many quite interesting comments there and especially at http://olihb.com/2011... . - Daniel Mietchen

"This website introduces how to use R for data mining applications. Currently, two documents for this purpose are available. R Reference Card for Data Mining, a collection of R packages and functions for data mining R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies, an introduction on using R for data mining with examples and case studies" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Your research, your peers, your impact • Promote and enjoy real-time Open Access to research • Share primary data, working papers, books, media links... • Receive feedback and reviews from your peers • Expose your work to those that matter • Aggregate qualitative indicators about your impact • Drive, build and share your online reputation" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

So far, a lot of #pants - Have managed to create a page, no avatar options. #update I take that back. Having Skype'd with Aalam for 20 mins, things are well cool. - Graham Steel

"The increasing quantity and velocity of scientific output is presenting scholars with a deluge of data. There is growing concern that scholarly output may be swamping traditional mechanisms for both pre-publication filtering (e.g peer review) and post-publication impact filtering (e.g. the Journal Impact Factor). Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to create new filters. Metrics based on a diverse set of social sources could yield broader, richer, and more timely assessments of current and potential scholarly impact. Realizing this, many authors have begun to call for investigation of these “altmetrics.” (see altmetrics.org) Despite the growing speculation and early exploratory investigation into the value of altmetrics, however, there remains little concrete, objective research into the properties of these metrics: their validity, their potential value and flaws, and their relationship... more... - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Veikko Johannes Hakulinen (4 January 1925 – 24 October 2003) was a Finnish forestry technician and cross country skier, triple champion in both the olympics and world championship competition in cross country skiing. Besides his main forte, he also competed in biathlon, orienteering, ski-orienteering, cross country running and rowing at a national level and continued in senior competition." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Sho is an interactive environment for data analysis and scientific computing that lets you seamlessly connect scripts (in IronPython) with compiled code (in .NET) to enable fast and flexible prototyping. The environment includes powerful and efficient libraries for linear algebra as well as data visualization that can be used from any .NET language, as well as a feature-rich interactive shell for rapid development." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"The high frequency and negative impact of selective reporting of data from clinical trials are well documented. The widespread occurrence of data suppression means that healthcare practitioners and policy makers largely make decisions on the basis of an incomplete and biased subset of trial results. Selective reporting can often be identified by reviewing trial protocols and publications; it can be mitigated by defining standard core outcome sets for trials, and by ensuring access to all unpublished and published data" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"The following night, after Ginsberg’s poetry reading (why would I want to go to that?) a group of students eager for him to impart morsels of omniscience were forced to wait outside my room while we played video games on my Atari 2600—I destroyed Ginsberg at Frogger, but he eviscerated me on Combat. In a lame attempt at armistice he explained something about angles of trajectory and mathematics, but I went supervoid. He said he’d never played Combat before, but nobody is above suspicion." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"It could seem reasonable, based on what economics tells us, and the data we have, to conclude that open access publishing, as it is organized today, is vastly inefficient compared to traditional publishing and that it either should be abolished or strongly re–organized. The data seem to indicate that OA publishing, as a whole, is ready to take advantage of any diseconomy of scale, and every inefficiency, available. A natural conclusion could be that OA publishing in its present form should be abolished." (!) - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

Anders, I am afraid I do see fixed costs and economies of scale as important for OA publishing. There are - of course - also other aspects to it, that should not be forgotten. An important one is that the smaller publishers probably are where innovation will spring from. But from what I see, I conclude that most OA is about getting a single, traditional journal out electronically, at a... more... - Jan Erik Frantsvåg

"The amount of software that hosts spyware has increased dramatically. To avoid legal repercussions, the vendors need to inform users about inclusion of spyware via end user license agreements (EULAs) during the installation of an application. However, this information is intentionally written in a way that is hard for users to comprehend. We investigate how to automatically discriminate between legitimate software and spyware associated software by mining EULAs." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Between 500 and 700 kilos of fermented shark were stolen from a shed by Stapi in Innri-Njardvík on Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland this week." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Call for Abstracts and Participants The 2nd International Colloquium on Data Provenance and Data Management for eScience (DPDM¡¯11) Melbourne, Australia, March 18, 2011, in conjunction with CSIRO Computational & Simulation Sciences Transformational Capability Platform Annual Conference http://research.ict.csiro.au/confere..." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Backtype is an "intelligence platform," a suite of tools and insights that help companies quantify and understand the impact of their social media efforts. Marz works on the back end, figuring out ways to store and process terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and millions of blogs. The platform runs on Hadoop, and makes use of Cascading, a Java API for creating complex workflows for processing data." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Apologies for what could be perceived as a rather "meta" question. I know there's some great people who frequent this site and some opinions on the following would be really useful. I was wondering, when searching the literature, is there any benefit to using the various citation databases simultaneously? For instance, I find Google scholar to be impeccable at indexing journals and linking citations. In a few isolated examples, I've found it far more comprehensive than the competition for viewing citations. How do you go about searching for papers, and what tips could you give?" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"SAGE Open is a new open access publication from SAGE. It will publish peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. SAGE Open seeks to be the world's premier open access outlet for academic research. As such, unlike traditional journals, SAGE Open does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Rather, SAGE Open evaluates the scientific and research methods of each article for validity and accepts articles solely on the basis of the research. This approach allows readers greater access and gives them the power to determine the significance of each article through SAGE Open's interactive comments feature and article-level usage metrics. Likewise, by not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, SAGE Open facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers, whether within or between disciplines." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"APE-INV supports efforts to reclassify by inventor all patent applications to the European and US Patent Offices, as listed in the EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database, better known as “PatStat”. To this end, a ‘Name Game’ Algorithm Challenge has been set up, in order to compare the results obtained by applying different algorithms to the same subsets of PatStat data (aka “Benchmark Databases”) , where the aim of all algorithms is that of identifying who, among the various inventors with similar names listed on different patent documents, are indeed the same person. All researchers interested into producing algorithms and joining the challenge are welcome to contribute and to attend the realted Workshops. The expected outcome of the Challenge will consist in a set of tools for handling name-cleaning on PatStat and, possibly, a database of inventors’ names, complementary to PatStat." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Den protestantiske etikk og kapitalismens ånd la noe av grunnlaget for det moderne Norge. I spissen stod Hans Nielsen Hauge." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"The show's cultural significance cannot be understated. You do not tape or DVR Kalle Anka for later viewing. You do not eat or prepare dinner while watching Kalle Anka. Age does not matter—every member of the family is expected to sit quietly together and watch a program that generations of Swedes have been watching for 50 years. Most families plan their entire Christmas around Kalle Anka, from the Smörgåsbord at lunch to the post-Kalle visit from Jultomten. "At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, you can't to do anything else, because Sweden is closed," Lena Kättström Höök, a curator at the Nordic Museum who manages the "Traditions" exhibit, told me. "So even if you don't want to watch it yourself, you can't call anyone else or do anything else, because no one will do it with you."" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Call for Papers IEEE 2011 Fifth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2011) http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyon... Washington DC, U.S.A., one day between July 5-10, 2011 In conjunction with IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2011" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Executable Paper Grand Challenge is a contest created to improve the way scientific information is communicated and used. It asks: 1. How can we develop a model for executable files that is compatible with the user’s operating system and architecture and adaptable to future systems? 2. How do we manage very large file sizes? 3. How do we validate data and code, and decrease the reviewer’s workload? 4. How to support registering and tracking of actions taken on the ‘executable paper?’ The purpose of the Executable Paper Challenge is to invite scientists to put forth their ideas pertaining to these pressing and unsolved questions. The first place winner of the Executable Paper Grand Challenge will receive $10,000 USD + Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"MEXICO CITY — The Royal Spanish Academy is lopping two letters off the Spanish alphabet, reducing it to 27. The Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid serves as the grammar police for the 450 million people who speak the language. Out go “ch” and “ll,” along with lots of annoying accents and hyphens. The simplified spelling from the academy, a musty Madrid institution that is the chief arbiter of all things grammatical, should be welcome news to the world’s 450 million Spanish-speakers, not to mention anybody struggling to learn the language. But no. Everyone, it seems, has a bone to pick with the academy — starting with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. If the academy no longer considers “ch” a separate letter, Mr. Chávez chortled to his cabinet, then he would henceforth be known simply as “Ávez.” (In fact, his name will stay the same, though his place in the alphabetic order will change, because “ch” used to be the letter after “c.”)" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"The feature is pretty straightforward: head to Academia.edu, and you can browse through over 12,500 journals sorted by topic (here’s a listing of publications related to biology). You can opt to ‘follow’ your favorite publications, and relevant stories will start popping up in your Academia.edu news feed, so you don’t have to worry about looking them up yourself every month. Price also says that this feature ranks journals by how many followers it has, which could be used to gauge how influential (or at least, how popular) a given journal is." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"The fundamental message for the computer science community is: although it is more difficult to get published in journals, the effort is ultimately rewarded with a higher impact. From a bibliometric perspective, the best strategy to gain impact seems to be that of publishing few, final, and well-polished contributions in archival journals instead of many premature "publishing quarks" in conference proceedings." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

whoa, really? in CS? - Christina Pikas

"Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case like his first circuit album (1-Bit Music 2004-05), 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself. The album is available from Cantaloupe Music." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Does a flourishing economy depend on delusion? Adam Smith thought so. In a famous passage in The Theory of Moral Sentiments he described a “poor man’s son, whom heaven in its anger has visited with ambition.” The young man imagines how much easier his life would be if he could live in a grand home, attended by servants and traveling by coach rather than on foot: “He thinks if he had attained all these, he would sit still contentedly, and be quiet, enjoying himself in the thought of the happiness and tranquillity of his situation.” The man spends his life striving to achieve his dream. He becomes wealthy, with all the luxuries he imagined, but to get there he has to work so hard that he can never relax. “Through the whole of his life,” writes Smith, “he pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity that is at all times in his power.” The man is deluded by the glamour of wealth, tricked by an... more... - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Melencolia I is a depiction of the intellectual situation of the artist and is thus, by extension, a spiritual self-portrait of Dürer. In medieval philosophy, each individual was thought to be dominated by one of the four humors; melancholy, associated with black gall, was the least desirable of the four, and melancholics were considered most likely to succumb to insanity. Renaissance thought, however, also linked melancholy with creative genius; thus, at the same time that this idea changed the status of this humor, it made the self-conscious artist aware of the terrible risks that came with his gift." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Data Hacks is a new library we have developed at bit.ly which is a set of command line tools to assist in data analysis. We love the beauty of command line tools that read/write from stdin/stdout and these are a set of utilities that do that, and help explore large data sets. Included: a tool to calculate 95 percentile values, a histogram display, sample to a % of stdin, and a tool to pass stdin to stdout for a set time period." - Thomas Brox Røst

"Mass layoffs in US hospitals are on track to reach a new high, and analysts predict that the worst may be yet to come. A report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that hospitals have laid off 8233 people so far this year. [...] If terminations continue at their current pace, 12 349 hospital employees will lose their jobs, up from 11 757 in 2009. [...] The layoffs come at a time when the American Association of Medical Colleges says that the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150 000 doctors over the next 15 years. The shortage of primary care doctors is particularly acute: the association predicts that 45 000 more will be needed by 2020." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"“In a world packed with narratives that overlap, ‘Shahada’ pinpoints in precise moments the forces in its characters’ complicated lives — work and love, immigration and Islam,” said a statement announcing the awards. “The story is specific to Germany and Europe today, but universal in its implications.” While Mr. Qurbani appreciates the reception that his film has gotten, its timing has cast him as a symbol of the fragile fault line currently challenging societal cohesion in Germany. “It is tragic what is happening here,” said Hatice Akyün, a writer and lifelong German resident of Turkish descent who, like Mr. Qurbani, must confront the frustrating daily exclamation from other Germans who never seem to tire of telling them, “You speak German so well.” “I’m tired of explaining,” Ms. Akyün said. After living here for 40 years, she said, she is so distraught by what is happening that she is considering moving to Istanbul. “The only country I consider home,” she said, “is Germany. But it is getting worse and worse.”" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"New research has revealed that agriculture came to Europe amid a wave of immigration from the Middle East during the Neolithic period. The newcomers won out over the locals because of their sophisticated culture, mastery of agriculture -- and their miracle food, milk." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet