Category Archives: Open Data

Playing with MultiGraph

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Dan Gezelter

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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Data visualization and Digital Research tools

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Dan Gezelter

Two new collections of tools that may be of interest to the OpenScience community.  Not everything on these lists is Open Source, but many of the visualization and research tools look to be very useful.   Hat tip to Eric … Continue reading →

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Computational Chemistry Highlights

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dan Gezelter

Computational Chemistry Highlights (CCH) is an interesting new overlay journal that identifies important contributions to the field of computational and theoretical chemistry published within the last 1-2 years.  I’m involved in this particular overlay journal – I’ll be concentrating on recent developments … Continue reading →

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Being Scientific: Fasifiability, Verifiability, Empirical Tests, and Reproducibility

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

If you ask a scientist what makes a good experiment, you’ll get very specific answers about reproducibility and controls and methods of teasing out causal relationships between variables and observables. If human observations are involved, you may get detailed descriptions … Continue reading →

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On Reproducibility

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

I just got back from a fascinating one-day workshop on “Data and Code Sharing in Computational Sciences” that was organized by Victoria Stodden of the Yale Internet Society Project. The workshop had a wide-ranging collection of contributors including representatives of … Continue reading →

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What, exactly, is Open Science?

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

I was recently asked to define what Open Science means. It would have been relatively easy to fall back on a litany of “Open Source, Open Data, Open Access, Open Notebook”, but these are just shorthand for four fundamental goals: … Continue reading →

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Exhibit: make your data web-accessible

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Dan Gezelter

David Karger‘s lab at MIT has developed some neat web software called exhibit, which is designed to let non-ultra-sophisticated individuals publish data in ways that make it immediately accessible and interactive for people encountering it on the web. With exhibit, … Continue reading →

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