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Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions - http://www.librarything.com/work...
Bill Anderson, Richard Akerman, Jan Aerts and 4 other people liked this
Do you have the book, or read it yet? I am considering buying it but have found the Beautiful Code book (same concept, I suppose) less useful than I had hoped.
- Hilmar Lapp
Hilmar, does your institution have ProQuest Safari Books access? If so - http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/9780596....
- Neil Saunders
I notice that FFers Cameron Neylon and Egon Willighagen, among others, co-authored a chapter.
- Ruchira S. Datta
To be clear, you should of course buy a copy and just use Safari Online access to preview :-)
- Neil Saunders
Hey, great point about the Safari Books link, thanks Neil :-)
- Tom.Pasley
To prospective buyers... if you have an author (physically) nearby, all(?) received a number of coupons for 30% off... so make sure to check the list of authors...
- Egon Willighagen
Of course I am biased since I know enough of the authors, but it's a very well edited book. If you are expecting great depth on topics, code examples etc, this is not the one. If you want to find out what problems people try to solve and how they come to decisions, where data works and where it doesn't, it's the book for you. Highly recommended
- Deepak Singh
I am extremely jealous actually. I'm assuming my copy is sitting on my desk at work - which I won't get to until Monday and everyone else has had their copy for weeks! Many of the chapters are also available online under CC-BY but if you want to get the whole lot I would obviously recommend the book in either physical or online form. None of the authors are getting payments BTW all of...
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- Cameron Neylon
Reconstruction of large phylogenetic trees: A parallel approach - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
paulo DOT nuin AT gmail DOT com, thanks a lot
- Paulo Nuin
On the way.
- Pawel Szczesny
Received, thanks a lot.
- Paulo Nuin
Come on, a simple Google search turns up the PDF on the CIPRES site.
- Hilmar Lapp
Sorry, I haven't tried Google for this article, lazy Sunday. I got a couple of links from different sites to the paper but never checked Google.
- Paulo Nuin
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