In this series, members of the RDS team share links to research data related stories, resources, and news that caught their eye each month. Feel free to share your favorite stories with us on Twitter @UWMadRschSvcs!
Brianna Marshall
Did you know that there’s a blog where you can read up on the latest science news at UW-Madison? Be sure to check out the UWMadScience blog and follow them on Twitter.
Read this thought provoking piece on why a healthy research ecosystem requires diversity on The Winnower.
Lastly, if you need to extract tabular data from PDFs, I just discovered the aptly named PDFTables and I highly recommend it!
Cameron Cook
This opinion piece, “Reimagining the Paper” explores other forms of research outputs that could have a positive impact on reproducibility.
The latter half of my semester has focused heavily on data visualization so I really enjoyed this overview of a talk given at OpenVis.
Much of my semester has also focused on the Digital Humanities. In one of my classes we have been using The Historian’s Macroscope by Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart. They have an open draft available online as well as code, datasets, and essays – it’s a great resource if you’re starting out in the topic.