Author: Paul R. Pival
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First look at NVivo Transcription
Almost exactly a year ago I took a quick look at three automated transcription tools, and today there's another one to add to the mix, though this one's not free. NVivo has launched an automated transcription service and I'm impressed! I uploaded the same audio clip I used in last year's shootout, a 40-second snippet…
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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…
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Some thoughts on citations in the 21st Century
Colleagues at work pointed to this long read on Medium: Open Access Knowledge: Digital Style Guide. In it, Patrick Dunleavy makes the case that, whenever possible, academic citations should point to "free" online versions of resources rather than the archaic "dead tree" version seemingly favoured by traditional style guides. He also argues that in addition…
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Installing Extensions in Open Refine – note to self: RTFM
One of my all-time favourite open source tools is Open Refine, which "is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data." Today I'm talking about that extending bit. One of the nice features of Open Refine is…
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Some tweaks at Google Scholar
Somehow I wasn't subscribed to the Google Scholar blog already, and missed last week's announcement that they'd made some tweaks to the interface of Google Scholar. Today though I was presented with a big link under the search box to the post on their blog touting Better ways of getting around. I've gotta say I…