Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

HEALPix

HEALPix (Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelation of a 2-sphere), can refer to either an algorithm for pixelation of the 2-sphere, or the associated software package available under the GNU GPLv2 license. Among other features, the HEALPix software implements extremely efficient … Continue reading

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Bio-Linux 7 – NEBC

Bio-Linux 7 is a fully featured, powerful, configurable and easy to maintain bioinformatics workstation. Bio-Linux provides more than 500 bioinformatics programs … Find Bio-Linux 7 – NEBC at: http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux/bio-linux-7-info

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PredictionIO: An Machine Learning Server

PredictionIO is an open-source Machine Learning server. It enables developers and data engineers to build smarter web and mobile applications through a simple set of APIs. Admin UI is provided for developers to select and tune algorithms. Find PredictionIO: An … Continue reading

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A Bechdel test for scientific workshops

After attending two recent scientific conferences, one which was gender balanced, and one which was so gender-imbalanced that it engendered snarky out-of-band twitter comments, it struck me that we might need a Bechdel Test for scientific workshops.  The Bechdel test … Continue reading

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OpenScience comes of age

In 1998, Open Science seemed like a pretty obvious projection of basic scientific principles into the digital age.  I didn’t think the ideas would meet much, if any, resistance from the scientific community.   And in October 1999, Brookhaven National … Continue reading

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Open Science Champions of Change

Congratulations to new White House “Champions of Change” for Open Science – all well-deserved!   It is fantastic to see Open Science getting public and welcome recognition from OSTP. A number of other great people from the Open Science movement will be at … Continue reading

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OpenAPIs for scientific instrumentation?

An interesting question from Dale Smith:  Are there OpenAPIs for remote sensing and monitoring of scientific instruments?  Dale pointed us at this very cool RSOE EDIS alert map as an example of what could be possible with distributed consumer-grade sensors … Continue reading

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OpenScience poster

I’m giving a poster in a few days about openscience.org, and it has been a very long time since I’ve had to make a poster.  This one turned out quite text-heavy, but I wanted to make a few arguments that … Continue reading

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Great OpenScience news today

Lots of fantastic OpenScience happenings in the news today: The G8 Science ministers support open data in science with one of the strongest statements I’ve seen: “To the greatest extent and with the fewest constraints possible publicly funded scientific research … Continue reading

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Playing with MultiGraph

I’ve been playing around with a cool JavaScript library called MultiGraph which lets you interact with graphical data embedded in a blog post.   The data format is a simple little xml file called a “MUGL“.   Here’s a sample … Continue reading

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