July 2016 Link Roundup

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Brianna Marshall

Have you seen this video of UW researchers talking about their work studying the Zika virus?

A blog post by ecologists Ethan White and Morgan Ernest on whether long-term data should be open.

Github is helping make open source data more readily available.

Cameron Cook

Kristin Briney wrote an introduction to versioning.

SocArXiv has announced itself as a new open access pre-print archive for the social sciences.

Code4Lib has a great introduction to text mining with R, while the article is geared toward information professionals I think it’s a great resource for anyone.

Research Data Network has a list of personal data resources.