Karthik Ram (@_inundata)

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May 2013

@hspter Love at first sight - for blind folks with recent eye transplants.

ok I am horrible at this. Going to sit quietly in the corner.

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NHMdinolab Paper submitted. Await rejection note on Monday. At least submitting late on Friday means it's 'under consideration' for at least 48 hrs

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@seanjtaylor nice day for it too! Before it gets super hot over the weekend.

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@tpoi ah nice. I still have the placeholder package from more than a year ago. waiting for the api.

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@tpoi what API are you documenting?

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@ctitusbrown I made a ver of that report:
bit.ly/11c97vA
For your report enter "pornag" in the box (@Impactstory generated that ID)

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wow, I just got featured on The Onion!
onion.com/15mnC37

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epistemographer Congrats and good luck to @pahlkadot as she heads to White House for a year: c4a.me/15fDxAV

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@stat110 Just bantering. It’s great that your advice was for students to learn R. Going to use that slide for undergrad seminars. :)

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Totally bizarre playing cards for sale on @eBay.
bit.ly/18BmwTg
@xieyihui

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The latest daily build of @rstudioapp has a presentation feature. Write R markdown and run full-screen slide deck.
bit.ly/18BkTop

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@AhmedMoustafa @ctitusbrown One solution. with each version bump push zipped @github repo to @figshare and grab doi. Add to README.

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winston_chang @_inundata for loops are actually faster than *apply when you don't need to collect the output. See tests at: rpubs.com/wch/3797

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Harvard stats professor uses R to thank all 400 students in yearbook message.
+1 for nerdiness.
but a for loop?
i.imgur.com/hKbMepu.jpg

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@RevoJoe Thanks for encouraging me to show up yesterday, Joe. Glad I made it. See you next time.

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@brookeborel @pitchaya You think a cicada in a $5000 suit has time to learn how to ride a segway? Come on!!!

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@brookeborel @pitchaya Oh come on! If I can train a little cicada to do the chicken dance we can def teach him how to ride a segway.

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@brookeborel @pitchaya Take all my money and make this. Take extra effort casting cicada GOB.

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@naupakaz He does. He’s filed a few issues on Rtools.

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@matthewmccull Loving the new youtube channel! Looks like a fantastic resource.
bit.ly/148Y07D

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@KTInvasion @recology_ Nevermind. I’m scrolling up on tweets and realized it’s the other Rtools.

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@KTInvasion @recology_ If it is my ST2 package, the fix is easy. You need to replace R64.app with R.app in Rtool.py (I’ll push that change)

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@KTInvasion Rtools? As in the ST2 package or something else?

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@recology_ @KTInvasion or just upgrade your R. No good reason not to.

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@hadleywickham Who was the 3rd person from Rstudio with you and JJ? I’m supposed to email him something & can’t find him on rstudio . org

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JJ Allaire talking about RCpp. 80% of base R is fortran and C. pic.twitter.com/gos5qOVq4M

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Excited that @hadleywickham also uses sublime text 2.

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@ChrisGandrud Might have to bend your ear sometime. I just sent a book proposal to the same publisher yesterday.

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@ChrisGandrud When is your book due to come out? Is the final version already w/ the editors?

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Excited to see @xieyihui’s knitr book finally out on Amazon.
amzn.to/13jqInc

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Check out this fantastic map of NYC bike share. bit.ly/13jo9S6
built using R + D3 + Leaflet by
@ramnath_vaidya

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@ramnath_vaidya So awesome! Love this and all of your work.

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BrunaLab .@noamross Thanks! let us know if any worth adding: "Wow, helluva roundup of smartphone apps for ecologists: brunalab.org/apps/"

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jwyg Next @OKFN meetup in San Francisco is being hosted by @PLOS: meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeF…

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albertopepe if you're in NYC tomorrow and want to hear about data-driven articles and @authorea come to the AMNH in the UWS: amnh.org/our-research/p…

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BobOHara @_inundata re-establish your equilibrium by asking something stupid on r-help

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For the first time EVAR I did not get Ripleyed on a CRAN submission. He even said thank you.

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quinnnorton Option for hiding data: 1. Truecrypt deniable volumes 2. Tor hidden services 3. Posting it on Google+

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@gvwilson
$> gcalendar add “do not email Greg for 3 days”

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@LizNeeley Also discussion on GitHub are quite civil, even with strangers.

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@LizNeeley Metafilter hands down. I’ve been a member for almost 10 years so I know first hand.

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@LizNeeley Science only or general examples ok?

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@hadleywickham hoping to chat with you and JJ a little tomorrow if I can get past the monster wait list for tomorrow’s meetup.

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@ChrisDarimont Howdy Chris! Hope you’re doing well.

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@vsbuffalo @hspter and done! That was amazing. Sadly have to wait again for more AD.

Picture me walking slowly with head down. Cue music.

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@neilfws This is useful if you have multiple layers but don’t want some (e.g. a linetype/fill) to show on legend.

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@neilfws That too. The new ggplot has several ways of achieving the same outcome (not just for legends).

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@cboettig @neilfws e.g.
ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width)) + geom_point(show_guide=FALSE)

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@neilfws Just add show_guide=FALSE to your mapping (i.e. geom).

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@SarahBisbing Can’t wait to tell you all the perks of having a PhD like free parking at handicap spots ok I’ll wait till you actually get it

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theresa_lauren The best thing about writing is ugggggggggggggggggghhhh kill me

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mrgan Arrest. Dev. party startin'. Made hot ham water (tom yam) and cornballs (tod man khao pod). pic.twitter.com/3LXT4K9hWK

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@hspter I’m sure you’ll win. It could be a new start for both of you.

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@hspter Is Ryan Gosling texting this person?

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@hspter There’s a guy like that at my coffee shop. Brings own tea, pays for hot water, and occupies largest table all day.

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@hspter @vsbuffalo @johnmyleswhite like it but season feel a bit odd to me. Also not enough GM or Maeby (yet). Might need to rewatch season

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@hspter @vsbuffalo On episode 9. Trying to leave the couch but failing miserably. Feeling like a Bluth.

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@jessicasadler6 Yes many of us use it regularly and we like it.

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bendmorris Writing a paper with Markdown/pandoc, and I'm sold. Previous paper was written in LibreOffice Writer. Never again.

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jakefogelnest Just logged into Netflix. I think they've made a huge mistake. pic.twitter.com/AcedXP7NpL

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@AnotherKinase what do you get to do over the summer? Time off or more research?

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Ooh. Just got my @feltron annual report in the mail. Perfect for my Saturday afternoon nerd out! pic.twitter.com/ov1Vs2D0m4

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@vndimitrova Fantastic! I’ll drop you an email shortly.

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Little over 12 hour before the internet collapses. bit.ly/13Slwcl

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@hspter if it gets juicy you better live tweet it.

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jasonpriem "Dynamic personal scientific journal" app mines Twitter, recommends top articles: abstrac.net

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@cjlortie Would be great if you can help with this.

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@cjlortie open data open science. Looks like too late to schedule but if I can then I can justify spending money to fly out to London.

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j_timmer The reward for this years most unintelligible paper title may have bee won this week:
pnas.org/content/early/…

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Just learned about Zenodo (bit.ly/16eRD9J), a non-profit repository, via this great article by @rmounce bit.ly/16eRALb

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Verizon does nothing to protect you.
bit.ly/16eQe2S

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@vndimitrova I’ll have to pick your brain about some shared goals/ideas very soon.

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@vndimitrova Just learned about bit.ly/12SKMhi
Looks fantastic and closely aligned in mission to a project I’m working on @rOpenSci

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@cboettig The notion that an object now has a permanent identifier that will resolve somewhere as opposed to something more fleeting.

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@ctitusbrown @naupakaz kred? kred? Tell me you’re joking. *sigh*

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@brookeborel That’s my museum! My office is on the same floor.

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@recology_ @tpoi I think I might know someone who knows something about this.
twitpic.com/csu95q

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@jdyeakel Yep I’m going. I’ll be there Sun-Fri. See you there!

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Pretty sure I'm going to make a huge mistake this Sunday. Chances are solid as a rock. ko ko ko.

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@ctitusbrown Most things these days are @ethanwhite’s fault. Especially since he dropped off the face of the internet.

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@ctitusbrown Came up in a discussion of altmetrics too. /double facepalm

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@ctitusbrown I know. This person saw it before then. I had to explain.

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Steve_Yegge Github users are the vegans of the open source world. They won't shut the fuck up about it, even if you're just talking about the weather.

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@lgatt0 @github @speakerdeck Hells yeah. speakerdeck metrics would rock.

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OH at dinner today: Did you guys know that @ctitusbrown made tenure because of his Klout score?

me: facepalm

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@vsbuffalo Looking forward to reading that Alces paper showing moose size reduction.

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@kwbroman “ok now stay behind mommy and stop texting while we’re crossing the st.”

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Help digitize specimens from @UCBerkeley via Notes for Nature!
bit.ly/14E0Eox
Incl. some of Darwin’s beetles. berkeley.edu/news2/2013/05/…

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@AnotherKinase don’t miss those days. good luck.

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@JMDugan Also strongly considering it. Working on a workshop proposal. Thanks for the deadline reminder.

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@MikeTaylor Must be really terrible conference coffee for everyone to run out at once. ;) @Protohedgehog

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@naupakaz <3 Pinboard. It’s my other brain, especially with the archival bookmarking. 3+ years now.

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@naupakaz Scowls at you for anything support related. Total opposite of the Pinboard guy.

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@naupakaz I tried Fever years ago and found it coming up short. Lack of demo is frustrating.

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@naupakaz Bg requirement is a minimalist consistent feel that Reederapp provides. So whatever backend it supports. Looks like Feed Bin.

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@jennifergardy I know of many famous cats in the area. Can herd them towards Google campus.

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@noamross How did you get a draft of the paper I’m working on wait a min.

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ReadKev Excellent! - ORCID integration with figshare bit.ly/12YMpsx

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MarkHahnel 2 new publisher portals on figshare: plos.figshare.com & f1000.figshare.com - Browse and filter and

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Want to record your terminal and easily share it some someone?
bit.ly/13K7kym

Great idea for bootcamps
cc @swcarpentry

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ML_Hipster The big data hype has meant everyone with a CSV file and R is doing machine learning now. From here on I'm exclusively doing post-data ML.

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@JenniferWaugh2 That looks amazing. I want to go to there.

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Microsoft Excel is good for something.
bit.ly/11c28BD

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dwineman Duh it’s pronounced “jif” because G before I is always soft, he said giddily, giving a girlish giggle that gimballed his gibbous girth.

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Two + years of R notes from @tylerrinker bit.ly/12vStbF
Looks incredibly useful.
.↬ @naupakaz

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@duffy_ma It’s called the Duffy lab? For some reason I was hoping it would be Jazz Hands Daphnia lab.

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@jiffyclub I’m starting something new too, and details also forthcoming. Welcome to the bay area. Let me know if I can help w/ anything.

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@jebyrnes I did a ton of these last year and explored dozen options. Need to write it up.

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@robinkraft which is super frustrating. Leave jacket at home: hella windy
Bring one: hella hot

Argh

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@phdpqc I believe he’s unplugged as he travels to his sabbatical. Said he’d be back online early June.

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@tpoi Ecology letters should give you one of those coffee shops punch cards. Congrats!

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CameronNeylon The funny thing is that when you look at early papers from Phil Trans Royal Soc, many look much more like blog posts than articles

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PLOSALM Excited to see Wiley journals has started trial of altmetrics on articles! wileyopenaccess.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/art…

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drinkerthinker conference calls: everyone talk! no one talk! everyone talk!

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Hosted IPython notebooks with additional AWS support. bit.ly/16MJ3Pz from Continuum.

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@bendmorris @DanMcGlinn @swcarpentry Planning to try that approach in the coming months.

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@bendmorris @DanMcGlinn @swcarpentry Rstudio is fantastic for teaching. Also easy to deploy as an AMI with users so peopel just show up.

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@bendmorris @swcarpentry Please push your branch to the main repo. Would love to reuse/add material in future.

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@recology_ @distribecology hey you should promote ropensci at this thing.

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hadleybeeman For those of you who've been campaigning for it, it looks like the Stack Exchange is in public beta now: opendata.stackexchange.com

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@phylorich @bendmorris @adaptive_plant yes please do. Most of my data ones are private at the moment. Public ones are just review papers

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@jennifergardy He’s at the support group for depressed men this evening.

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@JacquelynGill Also heard that the ac will be set at 79 and we have to bring puppets because there won’t be any projectors.

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@JLVernonPhD Great, thanks. We’ll work on submitting a workshop.

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Fantastic picture of nematodes in an ant’s gut by @Myrmecos
bit.ly/10jhbhf
cc @GrunerDaniel
@brookeborel

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If you use critical markup @ttscoff has added support in Marked.app

bit.ly/10jfsZz

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iainh_z On @ukodi blog: @github for data publishing theodi.org/blog/git-data-… I am all for hacking existing tools. cc: @matthewmccull @_inundata

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@JLVernonPhD Also is registration as difficult as regular SciO? When does it open so I can add it to my calendar.

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@JLVernonPhD Awesome! Will there be room for a climate data, R, reproducibility type hands on session I could propose?

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@kara_woo Yeah. They get super restless otherwise.

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@cjlortie I’ll need to run a workshop to justify expense. Trying to sort that out. But yes if I come.

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@kara_woo Malamutes are great except they get really hot and uncomfortable everywhere. Even in foggy/cold sf.

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@cjlortie You going to inteecol? Still trying to figure out my plans.

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@noamross Carving your questions inside a jellyfish infested undersea cave would be better than ecolog. But agree on types of q and c mass.

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@noamross Skeptical of a Q&A site for long form answers.

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DataConverter is a fantastic ST2 package that can convert data between formats (csv, json, xml, mysql etc).
bit.ly/11Sv9Kd

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BadAstronomer We have a winner for most idiotic spam ever. pic.twitter.com/Fm1cSHzqHz

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GrunerDaniel Batter fried cicadas - must try it or regret for 17 more years. Nutty, mild flavor raw; fried, tastes like bar food pic.twitter.com/docEB9thfD

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Found photographs from National Geographic is pretty cool.
bit.ly/11RXy2T

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@melissaterras I don’t read most of my emails. If the subject is desc enough and I see it as a FYI I just auto archive it.

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@kara_woo are you already in Iceland? Don’t picnic on ice floes!

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@GlindaAuld Thanks but this is months old and the job has already been filled. No need to RT.

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If I was still doing field work somewhere remote I’d totally play this page (without the app of course).

youtube.com/watch?v=2sP1Dq…

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@hspter Nice. Might have to look into it after they clear their backlog.

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@hspter How do you like the pebble? I didn’t get one given the poor record of nearly every kst I’ve backed.

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@covert Love b2b! I was a salmon one year.

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@kara_woo @kwbroman @hspter I expected that you guys would predict it and almost didn’t do it.

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mbeisen browse all @PLOS figures on @figshare plos.figshare.com

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@thrungva @hspter I have been listening to some Dr. Funke’s 100% natural good time family band solution.

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@hspter Take a good look because it’s the last time you’re going to see this.

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@winston_chang that’s too bad. My first time at useR! but hopefully I’ll meet you another time. Mazel tov in advance.

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younglandis There are more rhino scientists/conservationists than there are Sumatran rhinos left in the wild: iucn.org/?12741/Last-ch…

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The R Journal is moving to @github pages.
Preview: bit.ly/1087A9w
Thanks @hadleywickham! This is awesome.

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wow @winston_chang has a shiny app demo that integrates with javascript.

bit.ly/1086qel

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@winston_chang I’ve been waiting for this for quite some time. Awesome! Are you going to useR!?

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The first @github repo linked with a R Journal paper is up!
bit.ly/12HKpFa

Context: bit.ly/12HKpF8

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Excited to be using @HipChat for @rOpenSci team communications.

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@caitpickens So great to meet you and Sarah. Until next time. Let me know if you hear back about Wednesday.

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@gvwilson hope you overheard all the awesome assessment advice I got from @caitpickens

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