Some prefer to manually cite and reference documents that they work on. I am not one of those people. This method, especially when working collaboratively, often results in repeating the same double-check for references and style formatting over and over and….. I much prefer to use a reference manager like Zotero which makes it unbelievably [...]

After reading about the aparent lunacy of Rupert Murdoch a while back, I entertained the idea that newspapers may not have to die a lonely death. In fact, I imagined that, given the last 5 – 10 years of technological change, a time when academic journals would disappear. I tested out the idea that a world [...]

The web is open and free…..at least for now. However, finding open sources of good quality data can be tricky at times. Michael over at the Dataspora Blog has compiled this short list of a few sources of data on the web. Freebase Open Data Sites Swivel Datamob Numbrary Peter Skomoroch’s Delicious Data InfoChimps Not [...]

I recently spoke with a friend who was working with a large dataset of information about head injury patients they are using in a research project. I’ve always said that for every day you expect to spend in data analysis, you can expect a week in data management just to prepare your dataset for analysis. [...]

I’ve just answered my first question on programming Q & A website stackoverflow. I’ve been following the statistics tag by RSS for a little while now and this is the first I’ve seen someone asking a question on the site. There is, however, quite a following on the official Stata e-mail list if one ever [...]