Big Data: Challenges and opportunities
November 20, 2012
With increasing frequency one can read announcements welcoming us to the age of Big Data (put the phrase “welcome to the age of big data” into google and you’ll get over 488,000 results). Reading about two recent events in particular sharpened my awareness of this new era, namely a big data event at the British …
Metaphor, image and now visualisation: Darwin’s tree of life
October 22, 2012
Yesterday I came across this tweet: “Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins Zooming into the Tree of Life. Magnificent piece of software, brilliantly intuitive visualisation of the tree of life http://bit.ly/PJyox3 Retweeted by Eric Sawyer” This led me to a fascinating interactive and fractal representation of the tree of life (or phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree) created by …
Open access – what’s out there?
August 10, 2012
Open access is a hot topic. It is almost impossible to keep up with what is being written about it. In this ‘Making Science Public’ blog post we attempt to collate some of the many issues surrounding ‘Open Access’ to publicly-funded research. We have grouped the resources into five sections: Policy Positions, Publishers and Publication, …
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