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Data From 14 Million Papers Is Now Available for Free
The Initiative of Open Citations (140C) announced today that science papers’ reference lists will now be accessible to anyone. As explained on their website, “citations are the links that knit together our scientific and cultural knowledge. They are primary data that provide both provenance and an explanation for how we know facts. They allow us to attribute and credit scientific contributions, and they enable the evaluation of research and its impacts. In sum, citations are the most important vehicle for the discovery, dissemination, and evaluation of all scholarly knowledge”...
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Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out?
Thefts of personal information aren't unusual. Every week, thieves break into networks and steal data about people, often tens of millions at a time. Most of the time it's information that's needed to commit fraud, as happened in 2015 to Experian and the IRS. Sometimes it's stolen for purposes of embarrassment or coercion, as in the 2015 cases of Ashley Madison and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The latter exposed highly sensitive personal data that affects security of millions of government employees, probably to the Chinese...
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Data Liquidity Tackles Cancer And Diabetes: An Epic Battle For Global Health
The Data Liquidity Coalition is a collaboration comprised of a wide spectrum of stakeholders in the biomedical community – including providers, payers, patients, researchers and others—who are deeply committed to actualizing a common vision of data liquidity to achieve personalized medicine and the rapid learning healthcare system. Read More »
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Data Management: Precision Agriculture Can Learn From Healthcare
In my brief foray into Healthcare Information Technology (IT), it took only a couple of weeks to discover that the challenges they faced were harshly reminiscent of what we’re facing in Ag Information Technology. Read More »
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Data Network Foundation Laid For Effectiveness Research
The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute is paving a large part of its foundation with a new round of $191 million in grants for comparative effectiveness and clinical data research networks. Read More »
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Data Notebook for Python, R Gets Reworked for the Web
Jupyter, the interactive data notebook for visualization and analysis with languages like Python and R, is undergoing a quiet but major reworking into a new product, JupyterLab. Jupyter's popularity extends beyond scientific or technical applications. Developers routinely share code snippets, sample output, and discussions of that output via Jupyter notebooks exported to HTML...
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Data Points And Dogma
By now, if you read MSM or conservative web sites, you’ve probably heard that a new randomized study of Medicaid in Oregon (published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine) shows the program has no impact on the health of people receiving it, which, some say, means the program is a worthless waste of money, or that its expansion via Obamacare should be resisted. Read More »
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Data Protection Responses To PRISM "A Smokescreen"
An online privacy expert has denounced European responses to US Internet surveillance and called for legal immunity in Europe for those that report its effects. [...] Read More »
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Data Scientists Create Code Of Professional Conduct
Big data practitioners develop data science guidelines for a profession where, they say, ethics are often lacking. Read More »
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Data Scientists Need Their Own GitHub. Here are Four of the Best Options
Imagine if a company’s three highly valued data scientists can happily work together without duplicating each other’s efforts and can easily call up the ingredients and results of each other’s previous work.That day has come. As the data scientist arms race continues, data scientists might want to join forces. Crazy idea, right?...
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Data Sharing Snafus Mar VA-DoD Hospital's Success
Lack of electronic health record interoperability at a new hospital jointly run by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense is adversely affecting clinical care and costing the government millions of dollars, according to a new report published this week by the Institute of Medicine. Read More »
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Data+ Awards: Harvard's Clean Energy Project Gets A Massive Speed Boost
Harvard University professor Alan Aspuru-Guzik and his team are supporting the search for organic compounds that could be used in the next generation of solar power cells. Read More »
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Data.gov Launches A New Consumer Community
The team at Data.gov launched its 16th data community on Monday, this one focused on government-gathered data that may be valuable to consumers. Read More »
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Data.gov Moving To An Open Source Platform
The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during a Web discussion Wednesday. Read More »
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Data.gov, World Bank to host 2012 International Open Government Data Conference
The 2012 International Open Government Data Conference, co-sponsored by Data.gov and the World Bank, will be held July 10-12 at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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