Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do.
DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.
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Jason and Paul discuss writing, note-taking, tagging, and outlining with Tree, Scrivener, Gitit, Evernote, FoldingText, Mendeley, Zotero, Editorial, Markdown, Copy, LaTeX, Pandoc, MacVim, TextMate, BibTeX, and DEVONthink.
Mendeley is a platform that allows scholars from all over the world to collaborate, and opens up science for everyone. Join our API community to build tools to make researchers' lives easier.
Pure aggregates your organization's research information from numerous internal and external sources, and ensures the data that drives your strategic decisions is trusted, comprehensive and accessible in real time. A highly versatile centralized system, Pure enables your organization to build reports, carry out performance assessments, manage researcher profiles, enable research networking and expertise discovery and more, all while reducing administrative burden for researchers, faculty and staff..
The Zika in Brazil Real Time Analysis (Zibra), a project that went through six towns of the Northeast with a mobile laboratory of genomic analysis, to conduct research on molecular epidemiology of zika virus, was in Salvador on Sunday (12/06). Partnership result between Fiocruz Bahia, Evandro Chagas Institute, Ministry of Health and universities in the UK, Canada and Australia, the goal of Zibra is to expand the genomic mapping of the virus to determine the origin, genetic diversity, and epidemiological aspects, helping in combating the epidemic, during a public health emergency.
Sankey diagrams are great for visualising flows from one set of data values to another. Although named after Irish Captain Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey,
How exactly should we visualise topic models to get an overview of how topics relate to each other? This post is a brief lit review of that debate - I realise
Stefaner, Moritz, Mario Diwersy, and Christian Herzog. 2014. Visual Funding Portfolios. Courtesy of ÜberResearch. In "10th Iteration (2014): The Future of Science Mapping," Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, edited by Katy Börner and Samuel Mills. http://scimaps.org
Today Noam Ross’ tweet about his experience with the new R Notebooks from RStudio got me excited. Can not find a GIF to properly convey the joy + wreckage
The Open Data Institute (ODI) equip, connect and inspire people around the world to innovate with data. Co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the ODI provides events, training, membership and consultancy around open data.
A handful of open Linked Data have appeared through my feeds in the last couple of days, including (via RBloggers) SPARQL with R in less than 5 minutes, which
The Sphere Handbook is one of the most widely known and internationally recognized sets of common principles and universal minimum standards for the delivery of quality humanitarian response. Because it is not owned by any one organization, the Sphere Handbook enjoys broad acceptance by the humanitarian sector as a whole.
UN MEDICAL SERVICES DIVISION
Zika Virus: Checklist of Preparedness and Response Activities
For UN Duty Stations Located in Countries where Local Transmission of Zika Virus is Known to Occur
Updated on 26 February 2016
No matter what your domain of interest or expertise, the internet is a treasure trove of useful data that comes in many shapes, forms, and sizes, from beautifully documented fast APIs to data that need to be scraped from deep inside of 1990s html pages. In this 3 hour tutorial you will learn how to programmatically read in various types of web data from experts in the field (Founders of the rOpenSci project and the training lead of RStudio). By the end of the tutorial you will have a basic idea of how to wrap an R package around a standard API, extract common non-standard data formats, and scrape data into tidy data frames from web pages.
The World Bank makes available a ton of great data from the World Development Indicators through its web API. The WDI package for R makes it easy to search and download data series from the WDI.
These publications provide information about ANDS services and some fundamental issues in data-intensive research and research data management. These are not rules, prescriptions or proscriptions. They are guidelines and checklists to inform and broaden the range of possibilities for researchers, data managers, and research organisations.
The New Stack | The Touchbase Node.js application was written by Couchbase Labs as a demonstration of Couchbase 4.0’s new N1QL query features. It wasn’t specially designed for a container-native world, so we’re using Containerbuddy to allow it to fulfill our requirements for service discovery.
The growing number of digital health devices and apps presents healthcare organizations with an opportunity to use the resulting data and improve their outcomes. This requires, however, a need to build and manage integrations to acquire this data. Validic solves this challenge by providing a one-to-many connection to digital health technologies.
Validic is a cloud-based technology platform that connects patient-recorded data from digital health applications, devices and wearables to key healthcare companies like hospital
systems, providers, pharmaceutical companies, payers, health information technology platforms, health clubs and wellness companies. With access to this information, Validic’s clients can accelerate their strategic healthcare initiatives — from patient engagement and population management to care coordination, wellness programs and more.
The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them, use them for reference, and update them. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA.
Never again will mankind have to look for RSS info in more than one place...ok, we're kidding, but we've aimed to create a near comprehensive list of all the RSS readers, tools,...
The Zika virus repository aims to help coordinate the global response by bringing together all partner information in one central location. The reporting tool helps delineate the Who, What, Where and When (4Ws) of this emergency response. The tool will generate reports based on information provided by partners in real time.
WHO and partners are appealing for the international response to the spread of Zika virus disease and any subsequent increases in the incidence of microcephaly and neurological disorders.
Since the establishment of the Advisory Group in July 2015, the Advisory Group has met monthly, by teleconference and in person. The papers considered by the Advisory Group, together with its reports and reflections of the Chair, are listed in chronological order.
In a pandemic, a specific vaccine will have to be rapidly produced to vaccinate people against the new virus. Such a vaccine, like all biological medical products, has to be checked for safety and efficacy (that is, does it work as claimed by the manufacturer) and approved for use. Usually this process takes several months but during a pandemic it must be done in a matter of days or at most, weeks. Countries receiving vaccine are responsible for the safety of their citizens and must make very quick decisions on whether to grant a licence, ask for more data or reject the application for a licence.
The Regulatory Capacity Building Outcome is defined as “countries with weak or no regulatory capacity will be able to regulate influenza products including vaccines, antivirals and diagnostics, and to accelerate national approval of these commodities in case of an influenza pandemic”. This Outcome is articulated across three Outputs, and seven Key Deliverables. Objectives to be achieved by 2016 will be measured against detailed global level indicators of success.
26 May 2016 -- WHO Member States have agreed to one of the most profound transformations in the Organization’s history, establishing the new Health Emergencies Programme during the 69th Session of the World Health Assembly taking place this week.
This document identifies trainings and induction material that is developed by WHO Pandemic and Epidemic department (PED) to train emergency responders in pre-deployment and function specific curriculums and to build national capacities before and during outbreaks and emergencies.
WHO’s Zika app aims to provide essential information on Zika virus disease and its suspected complications. Designed primarily for health care workers and responders, the app can also be a source of real-time information for the general public. Download and use the app is on IOS or android platforms and have easy-to-use information at your fingertips. In addition to information on on Zika virus diseases, microcephaly and other suspected complications, you can download WHO’s technical guidance and other useful resources, follow ongoing Zika related-research and development, stay updated about the latest news, and follow the international response to Zika. New content, including trainings will be added to the app in weeks to come.
Major epidemics in the 21st century highlight the need for a system to quickly transform scientific knowledge into action on the ground. Knowledge that is understandable and actionable is essential to mounting an effective response to save lives, minimize illness and to prevent unnecessary damage to societies and economies.
SciCurve transforms the old indexed-search based method of systematic literature review into interactive and comprehensible environment. It allows you to study your subject in great detail, while still having the ability to look at the bigger picture. Explore new scientific trends. Watch the rise of emerging paradigms. Target the most relevant and productive authors in your field and the journals keenest on publishing your type of research.
Powered by PubMed, SciCurve shows you both the freshly emerging trends, and the classical research.
By plotting your paradigm on network graphs, SciCurve allows you to identify thematically similar clusters of publications that connect or overreach number of sub-fields of research.
You will be finally able to observe frequently cited publications within visualized sub-fields with higher density and their mutual relationships.
Sherpa-JULIET provides information on research funding agencies’ policies on open access from around the world. These policies apply to deposit of published articles in open access repositories, publishing in open access journals and the archiving of research data.
R. Dogan, and Z. Lu. Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, page 91--99. Stroudsburg, PA, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, (2012)