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!
Cameron Cook
Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is working to share clinical research data and currently has 175 clinical trials available to the request data from.
It’s well known that Microsoft Excel often causes errors in spreadsheets due to automatic settings, especially with dates and numbers. The writers of this article from Genome Biology show how widespread these errors are in papers with supplementary gene lists.
Visualizing English Print project has some really cool tools for you to explore corpora in different ways. Download one of their corpora or follow their resources to make your own!
While science journalism is outside of the realm of what we normally talk about, the ideas of communication and dissemination are not. So, just in case any UW-Madison community member may be interested – science journalist, Nadia Drake, is this year’s UW-Madison writer in residence. She’ll be giving a public lecture next week on October 4th.