Just coded up a neat way to visualize the impact of @github repos using @Impactstory
bit.ly/10nIBzV
bug reports welcome.
@vsbuffalo Not sure yet. I was supposed to be doing a Berkeley one at the same time but that got moved up.
Harvard Professors provide advice to graduate students about open access, journal publishing and #openscience. bit.ly/16qCler
lets_experiment Don't forget to join us @dennyluan @eperlste @elizabethiorns for our AMA tomorrow morning at 10AM on @reddit bit.ly/Ypldnm
@labroides I do and love it.
@hadleywickham @gappy3000 @vsbuffalo Oddly enough I did the same to figure out my best chances of avoiding getting Ripleyed.
GrunerDaniel Congrats to Tad Fukami for @sciencemagazine "Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction" - great stuff, open pdf here bit.ly/YRYixC
medriscoll Proof that the best sportswriters are data scientists: Visualizing the evolution of LeBron James' shooting game. grantland.com/story/_/id/910…
iA Look at the green dot until the yellow dots disappear. Motion induced blindness: i.imgur.com/tEKeEeb.gif
Awesome figure I’m going to use next time I teach a @swcarpentry boot camp.
i.imgur.com/SbzNW8s.png
cc / @gvwilson
@MarkHahnel yo dawg we heard you like figshare so we wrote an article discussing figshare and put in on figshare.
TabathaSouthey Mounted police at the Tim Hortons drive through. Possible image for a future $20 bill: pic.twitter.com/hvvyivk9ba
mfenner New blog post: the case for open preprints in biology blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2013/0…
srsupp @_inundata @weecology @ethanwhite LOLrat: IM IN UR TRAPS STEALING UR NOMS AND UR FLYZ. pic.twitter.com/zfN72llcmv
@mrgunn They use js to break it for articles but not news.
TrestleJeff #ReproducibleResearch ers, soliciting feedback re: whether this idea has legs qbrc.swmed.edu/software/xbdf/ @ctitusbrown @swcarpentry @_inundata
@nparmalee I stuck a piece of masking tape on the check engine light. All good!
@weecology @srsupp @ethanwhite This tweet is so useless without pics. I didn’t realize that my life was incomplete without a lolrat.
Science is a big team sport especially with today’s need for interdisciplinary and large-scale experiments. bit.ly/YIUL7H
eviltrout Remembering that a user has read a Twitter direct message is the hardest problem in computer science.
@nparmalee The check engine light on my brain just came on and there is some smoke too. Is that ok?
@weecology @srsupp @ethanwhite This must be the first live tweet of a defense!
hmason Jeff Leek (of @simplystats) has all of his Data Analysis course videos on youtube: bit.ly/YitnxW
@zachwill wow, that was painful to read. Two iphones??
Really hate that Nature intentionally breaks @readability when other journals don’t.
ftrain Are you in bed reading this on your phone? Then I ask you: Did you lock the front door? Are you sure? TOTALLY sure? Goodnight.
@srsupp congrats, Dr. Supp!
@aloraine205 @SMEasterbrook @ctitusbrown @eperlste s/pie/hot dog
ooh a Flickr telnet bbs.
❶ Open terminal
❷ telnet spaceclaw . net
↩
#brilliant
@kara_woo er on.
@kara_woo extra credit! Some do! They live in boats (cheaper).
A: east bay.
I’ve been enjoying @Mapbox a lot. Here’s an awesome viz of rentals in sf: bit.ly/YHxmDP
Bonus: Guess where the academics live?
@wilbanks I loved your piece but don’t want my comment to sit next to Mr. Grumpy pants.
@TrestleJeff Thanks Jeff!
StevenSalzberg1 genomebiology.com/2013/14/3/109 Jeff Leek and I are trying to get Congres to realize how it is hurting science w/budget cuts.
@LaDiii88 Doesn’t really matter if you’re an academic, right? ;)
Affects me in other ways (library/coffee shops being closed).
@LaDiii88 yep, you’re right. Totally forgot. thanks!
@LaDiii88 why is tomorrow a holiday? other than spring break.
joy joy joy. @reederapp is adding support for more rss aggregators and even direct support.
bit.ly/13C011R
A data scientist weighs in on the text mining spat btn scientists and publishers. domain knowledge > shotgun.
bit.ly/14zsqoH
@brookeborel @cwillyard @cragcrest 26. Bourbon is your friend.
If I wanted to learn more about agile development (doesn’t necessarily have to be a software context), what should I read?
“Look, evolution, everyone has trouble staying motivated sometimes.”
bit.ly/10dA6Yd
@sandramchung Taxidermy: youtube.com/watch?v=LJP1Dp…
@hspter I know. teh sad. Now I’m reluctant to tell GoodReads about awesome books.
If you use knitr, grab the latest dev version. You can suppress progress updates with quiet = TRUE.
bit.ly/10dyRbf
#rstats
Amazon acquires Good reads. Of course. tcrn.ch/10dy5eD
#shouldhaveseenitcoming
Small Data and Big Data Should be Best Friends bit.ly/10dvBww
@ethanwhite @phdpqc I would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling github issues! hah, I totally forgot that discussion :)
New passion projects talk @github
bit.ly/16kvGSY
If you missed Rachel Myers [yt]: youtube.com/watch?v=rMYUGw… cc/ @swcarpentry
@ethanwhite @phdpqc So I never caught where those data came from.
@fluby Great to see you yesterday!
@phdpqc I also hope they validate the citations. I said Source code in med… It’s really Source code for med…
@distribecology @gvwilson I imagine Greg does this for his family from time to time: bit.ly/10Vbjuc
@distribecology @gvwilson This could be a fun game. Imagine what xkcd that might be before clicking.
As expected @jasonpriem is killing it with the altmetrics today.
bit.ly/Zrp6nu
@phylogenomics awesome! @David_Dobbs - didn’t know you were in the area. Welcome.
Galaxy Zoo: Motivations of Citizen Scientists bit.ly/ZrowWR #arXiv
ibartomeus .@rOpenSci are awesome. They even created a shinny app to run is.invasive! glimmer.rstudio.com/ropensci/taxiz…
Empty united flight FTW.
DEN ✈ SFO
Great to hang with Kayce and Ang on short notice.
@jasonpriem @mrgunn @rmounce @rvidal @raulpacheco @openscience I'll help set it up if that would help.
jasonpriem #Yipee, my new Nature comment is online! Argues that the scholarly journal is going away...#notBlindToTheIrony :) dx.doi.org/10.1038/495437a
@cboettig @figshare and then I scroll up and read Mark’s response. I should scroll up all the way then down.
@cboettig hah that would be nice. Mark sent me some to use. Can share with you if you like.
@researchremix On the bonus side, fewer reviews to write.
researchremix "Sorry, I only review for open access venues." So powerful, so easy to say.
@jasonpriem You finally put web-native in print! Now I can cite it!
@_Kate_Crosby_ That warrants a huzzah!
@covert looks great! Love flipboard 2.0!
NSF Today, NSF#supercomputer Stampede, cornerstone of XSEDE, officially opens for research. ow.ly/jtaS5
@DrLabRatOry @Stephen_Curry That’s what I’ve heard too. Trying out the hand stylus. bit.ly/13xhAzR
rOpenSci New version of rplos on CRAN (bit.ly/zWOXdi) & Github (bit.ly/ZpUZN7) - News 4 changes (bit.ly/ZpV2s8) @PLOSALM
@Stephen_Curry Styluses in general are blunt. I just ordered this: bit.ly/13xhAzR but another popular alt is bit.ly/13xhCb4
@ATredennick yes 2 is plenty.
My 90 yr old landlord just got immortalized in a xkcd. Stoked to tell him (and also explain what xkcd is).
bit.ly/Zvc9w9
@Stephen_Curry I use Penultimate. Hard to write on any app without feeling like you’re using a crayon.
@emckiernan13 congrats!
@gingi0 True. But Dragon for ios is free. Give that a go.
deanna In case your internet rage is threatening to overcome you, here. #yourewelcome pic.twitter.com/oyGI85WSQT
'Impossible Light’, trailer for the Bay Bridge light project. Looks fantastic!
youtube.com/watch?v=pPGNVw…
@kara_woo Alas no, I bailed on this trip. Another time!
snacktavish My Texas Longhorn paper has been getting some nice press, and it is #OpenAccess! pnas.org/content/early/…
@gingi0 I’ve only tried Dragon and it worked really well even on the first try.
Quite awesome to see a citizen science project on kickstarter. Yellowstone Wolf project: kck.st/Zovgod
Go Emily!
@nparmalee You live above the Federal reserve?
If you use @Pinboard then switch your bookmarklet to this one → bit.ly/YEAmO5
Strips out all the seo crap.
@kara_woo ask @carlystrasser
She’ll give you no bs advice.
@kara_woo hmm. Not sure how well that would be represented in peer-reviewed literature. Twitter poll might be better.
@kara_woo scholarly articles on tattoo regret?
@bendmorris ugh. /rolls eyes. I hate migrating.
Spring break = totally free cluster = massive embarrassingly parallel jobs. #rstats
@jess_carilli command + alt + 8. Did that do it?
@bendmorris First I’ve heard of this. I hope Oracle is not planning to kill off MySQL.
emilysdarling Ah-mazing "There’s no particular explanation for this nudibranch. Sometimes evolution is just having a good day" wtfevolution.tumblr.com/tagged/inverte…
@github Great video, except GitHub issues are not distributed. If GitHub is down, so are issues.
Anoles communicate via head bobs and can judge distance to another lizard.
bit.ly/YaXW8M
ᔥ @JLosos lab blog.
@nparmalee warm day here. But on the downside allergy season is on.
@carlystrasser The 4th (missing panel). A robot will be by to keep you company shortly.
@carlystrasser Super incomplete and unlikely to help a beginner without any examples at all.
@jess_carilli awesome, welcome back!
@jess_carilli Which country are you moving to? Back here?
@TheAtavism I’m so jealous.
@hspter Yeah I hope not either.
@jasonpriem ImpactStory sf. Just sayin.
@eperlste I’m an east bay denizen too. Happy hour when you get here!
@eperlste Awesome! welcome! Are you planning to live in the city or the south bay?
@vijay_ivaturi Thanks Vijay! will check it out.
@zentree exactly right on both. Not sure if there is a viable free alternative.
Will Google Scholar be next on the chopping block?
bit.ly/15IZer4
@phylorich haha. There are some folks. e.g. the people who work with revolution analytics, business use of R.
@phylorich yep. That’s a well recognized problem. Academics are not rewarded to be programmers, and prog can get better comp in industry.
@phylorich and now it pays close to industry over a shorter term. Candidate does not have to be a postdoc.
@phylorich excellent points, Rich! That’s exactly what’s happening here. Position was initially a postdoc at postdoc salary. 1/2
@skmorgane @ethanwhite can I request a River appearance at the Berkeley boot camp? #softwarecarpentrycelebrity
@caseybergman Unfortunately no. The data came to me from @phdpqc
@NewsCrier Please don’t mention me. Thanks.
Cmdr_Hadfield San Francisco and the whole Bay Area. Taken at an angle, it is easy to see the entire layout of the bay by night. pic.twitter.com/7CMf4C9OfW
@davidjayharris @noamross I’d love to see some examples of these awesome LaTeX presentations if you have links to share.
@snacktavish @ctitusbrown @teeniedeenie I have an open relationship with my data.
wow GitHub is currently under a ddos attack. bit.ly/ZdXd5F
Site seems fine to me.
@noamross having trouble with the same today. see earlier tweets.
@dabeaz @ctitusbrown You are in good company! Dallas’ finest. → bit.ly/ZdWilx
@ElDon78 Don, the beauty of Twitter is that smarter people come along with a solution. Problem sorted by @yihui → bit.ly/ZdUFoa
@xieyihui Fantastic! Thanks Yihui!
Fantastic write up about @fperez_org who just won the fsf award for his amazing work on ipython.
bit.ly/WXK55O
Congrats Fernando!
profjsb Congrats to @fperez_org on winning the @fsf award @ #libreplanet. My write up about Fernando about.wise.io/2013/03/23/fer… #ipython #python #pydata
@nparmalee They asked if I wanted a real living wage and I was like, nah, it’s cool. Maybe more hours, less appreciation? glad they said ok.
Academia is eating its young.
bit.ly/ZjYB3e
ᔥ hacker news.
@nparmalee because of this hilarious tweet. bit.ly/ZjYncp
and root veggies are awesome. :)
@nparmalee I just followed you a little while ago so I haven’t scrolled back.
@nparmalee or roast them for extra flavor. I missed the earlier context.
Trying to write a lecture in beamer (yes I know, shoot me) with R, knitr, and pandoc. Why does markdown oversize ggplot figs so horribly?
r343l Thanks to @_inundata I found out @tweetbot has regular expression tweet filters (including mentions!). Examples: gist.github.com/imathis/3006330
@michaelhoffman @ctitusbrown Some useful ones: bit.ly/13lIbQh, bit.ly/12syD5Q
@michaelhoffman @ctitusbrown Yep, I use Tweetbot (osx/ios only). But Tweetdeck also supports it.
@ctitusbrown Yes. Add a regexp filter on your Twitter client.
nparmalee Goddammit Science, pay me real money, you fucking bastard.
NewYorker .@mattbuchanan on "the simple truth that the technology industry... has a serious, persistent problem with women." nyr.kr/13jyDFF
@brookeborel Always the worst for me. Next big writing project I’m doing this: bit.ly/WWxy2L
and a typewriter with no wifi/twiter
@ethanwhite @DanMcGlinn @swcarpentry @caitpickens I'm mentally picturing all of you listening to eye of the tiger. Running up stairs.
TurboGrandma I'm gonna try not to spill 4.9 million gallons of oil in the gulf RT @BP_America
What's one thing you could do to save on energy in 2013?
@caitpickens @swcarpentry @ctitusbrown Ethan and Dan are both awesome. Have fun!
If you feel the need to torture your local parking enforcement officer.
i.imgur.com/ZHusRnT.jpg
My lab group in Berkeley is looking for a strong R programmer. Apply or pass this on!
bit.ly/Y4UFHP
#rstats
@LizNeeley so jealous you already bought the new Nirvana cd!
@vsbuffalo @hspter You can also set autosetuprebase = always in your global .gitconfig to prevent merge commits.
@hadleywickham @siah or data.table
@DataDiviner @ctitusbrown @eperlste how is this any different from the real world?
@gvwilson there is no subscript in markdown. Just use the HTML tag.
Moritz Muschick wins @BMC_series Ecology image competition with this photo: blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/…
Q&A: bit.ly/13h4O8A
That sinking feeling when the server admin tells you they accidentally nuked 400 gigs of your data. But hey, tape drives! and not just me.
@emilysdarling great job, Emily! #highfive
@distribecology he is also a popular Bay Area recycling company.
@MarkHahnel until you guys do a Harlem Shake I am not going to believe that you're on a real "retreat".
@polesasunder yes! Two people just told me. I didn't write the article though.
Still, I wish I pulled this off when I was 5.
@openscience are you hanging with @mrgunn and @elizabethiorns?
Didn't realize you were local.
Nice overview of all the open-data available from the Wikipedia Foundation.
bit.ly/WHBdQF ↬ @ReaderMeter
@ReaderMeter But yes, I’ll see you Monday.
@ReaderMeter Looks fantastic! hadn’t seen it. Last year we had a GSoc interested in this but never came through.
@ReaderMeter Hey will you be at the OKFN thing on Monday?
jwyg If you're in the Bay Area and interested in open knowledge join our meetup on Monday! meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeF… #opendata #openaccess #ddj
“5-year-old discovers dinosaur, names it after herself, drops mic for the rest of her life”
bit.ly/11m4W1u
@sandramchung @recology_ Did you know that @elizabethiorns is speaking at this event? Maybe ask her about esa too.
@kaythaney Not knowing that @manuscript is a real person, I just imagined you and draft_final_2.doc taking a walk down the beach.
Elise_Andrew A blue whale heart weighs 600kg. A human could crawl through their arteries. pic.twitter.com/86U4VA2haN
gvwilson I am looking for a student to do a cool Google Summer of Code project this year. Plz IM for details w/ link to your home page/site.
@kaythaney @swcarpentry Yes but just started today.
@duffy_ma Can’t believe your baby doesn’t have a crawling desk yet.
@kaythaney @swcarpentry all links 404 for me too.
Manipulate Excel files from R without a local Office installation.
bit.ly/ZMsmMl
But requires Java (bleh)
#rstats
@ficaryl Academia. You have two cows with just enough food. Both cows hire a dozen other cows w/ grand promises of future pasture.
@ficaryl The French and Aussie corporations are my favorites.
@mrgunn 2-4 pm, 2063 VLSB
@kara_woo Do they baikalot to work or just ski? #badbaikalpuns
elizabethiorns Join us April 4 for SOBA: Science Gaming sciencegaming-estw.eventbrite.com #sobay
adactio Google launch a product called Keep? With a straight face? I’m waiting for Yahoo Preserve.
googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/google…
#irony #weeping #hashbang
Live in Berkeley? Want to learn about #ggplot2? I’m giving a 2 hour demo/lecture in VLSB/IB on April 9th.
Awesome article on bats and coronaviruses by @carlzimmer
bit.ly/YsBl3K ↬ @aetiology
liked it? go read @DavidQuammen’s new book.
@JacquelynGill Twice today (over email) I got ma’am. Guessing they couldn’t figure it out with ethnic sounding name.
@researchremix I use it as a catch-all for misc. things i find on the web. But for plain text notes, nothing beats simple-note.
@researchremix Why not Evernote? That’s the only focus of the company and they do it really well.
@msanclem bummed I didn’t buy much gear this year. I’ll be getting a :( dividend.
Berkeley stats nerds, there’s a Stan talk this Friday:
bit.ly/ZLsbku
Nice interview Jeroen Ooms of OpenCPU #rstats
bit.ly/ZLrmrW
A great t-shirt for my fellow academics.
i.imgur.com/OAxe4av.jpg
My interview with @programmableweb about @rOpenSci
bit.ly/ZLqCmw
@brookeborel Didn’t ancient Egyptians do exactly that? Drink low alcohol beer because it was safer than water?
@covert hat tip. Not all that different from via.
@mfenner Awesome work Martin!
@covert hah, I didn’t realize she was using it. Idea came from someone else. I regularly use ↬ and ᔥ
New YC-startup brings a combo of spreadsheets + SQL for messy data to the web. tcrn.ch/Yp8f8t ↬ @covert
DataONEorg Reminder: Tomorrow is the deadline for applications to the DataONE Summer Internship Program. ow.ly/jfUVW
revodavid "In the year 2020 R will be a dominant force in commerce" - @burnsstat. I'd bet on sooner. bit.ly/100g5UD #rstats