In the rapidly evolving landscape of research, the importance of high-quality metadata and persistent identifiers (PIDs) cannot be overstated. PIDs and metadata are the connective tissue that binds together diverse research outputs, enabling discovery, accessibility, and reuse. Despite their critical role, the current model for metadata creation and enrichment is fraught with inefficiencies.

How to cite: Page, R. (2024). The Data Citation Corpus revisited https://doi.org/10.59350/wvwva-v7125 TL;DR These are some brief notes on the latest version (v. 2) of the Data Citation Corpus, relased shortly before the Make Data Count Summit 2024, which also included a discussion on the practical uses of the corpus. I downloaded version 2 from Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.13376773.

Yesterday I wrote about base R vs. dplyr vs. duckdb for a simple summary analysis. In that post I simulated 100 million rows of a dataset and wrote to disk as CSV. I then benchmarked how long it took to read in and compute a simple grouped mean. One thing I didn’t do here was separate the time it took to read data into memory (for base R and dplyr) versus computing the actual summary.

Hey there, science enthusiasts and policy wonks! Titus here, and I've got some exciting developments to share about the intersection of artificial intelligence and life sciences.

In response to the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on August 15, 2021, the German government committed to a Federal Admission Program (FAP) designed to assist vulnerable individuals from Afghanistan. Officially launched in October 2022, the program is now at its midpoint but faces potential discontinuation due to significant cuts in the federal budget.

I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about writing and teaching Go. Here’s a transcript of our chat.

I am very happy to be giving a keynote on October 22nd at the LundOnline conference, which, despite its name, will take place in person in Sweden. The conference’s theme is Turning policy into practice – opportunities and consequences for stakeholders in scholarly communication , and accordingly, my presentation will focus on the role of policies in Open Access.

Reposted from https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/duckdb-vs-dplyr-vs-base-r. TL;DR : For a very simple analysis (means by group on 100M rows), duckdb was 125x faster than base R, and 28x faster than readr+dplyr, without having to read data from disk into memory. The duckplyr package wraps DuckDB's analytical query processing techniques in a dplyr-compatible API.

Travis McKenna reviews Humean Laws for Human Agents, edited by Michael Townsen Hicks, Siegfried Jaag and Christian Loew

Alcances y límites de la actividad mercantil femenina en la sociedad patriarcal porteña (fines del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX) por Marcela Aguirrezabala Durante los años ’60 del siglo pasado, los movimientos feministas hicieron del fin del patriarcado una bandera de lucha, en tanto que, bajo la pretendida superioridad masculina terminaban justificando la opresión femenina en todo tiempo y lugar.

Tiny organisms reveal oceanic secrets through plankton tow methods, but which technique will unlock the hidden world beneath the waves?