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Google enters the data discovery game
I first read about it on Reddit, followed shortly by the CANLIB-DATA Listserv, but as of today Google has a new search engine dedicated to research data sets, the cleverly-named Google Dataset Search. The good: Surfacing this stuff is great! Google is using schema.org to discover stuff, and has a pretty extensive page on how
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A fascinating article about replication in psychology
The Atlantic recently posted a fascinating article looking at the problem of reproducibility in the field of psychology: Online Bettors Can Sniff Out Weak Psychology StudiesSo why can't the journals that publish them? Ed Yong breaks down the new results from the Social Sciences Replication Project, in which 24 researchers attempted to replicate social-science studies
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An introduction to cancer (excluding Quebec)
I subscribe to The Daily, from Statistics Canada, and was intrigued earlier this week when they announced that Canadian Cancer Statistics 2018 would be released the following day. This was the first time I remembered seeing StatsCan announce that something would be released, rather than that something had been released. Also, I couldn't recall a
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3 Simple, Free Apps for Accessing Your Home Computer From Anywhere (Gizmodo)
AnyDesk is totally new to me, so I thought I'd make note of Gizmodo's post on 3 Simple, Free Apps for Accessing Your Home Computer From Anywhere. I use Chrome Remote Desktop at least weekly, and have used TeamViewer to good effect in the past, so can vouch for each of those. The commenters overwhelmingly