An earlier method I tried was unable to harvest tweets mentioning @DataONEorg using the Google Chrome Browser extension, “Scraper” Scraper is a simple data mining extension for Google Chrome™ that is useful for online research when you need to quickly analyze data in spreadsheet form. Reviewing some of the software Continue reading Scraping @DataONEorg Tweets Off the Web with Browser Extensions
The previous notebook entry concerned mentions of @DataONEorg on Twitter. I established the following: The oldest tweet is from 2 years ago. It is dated July 29, 2012. This tweet is accessible from here: http://topsy.com/s?q=%40DataONEorg&window=a&type=tweet&sort=date&offset=990 The very first re-tweet of @DataONEorg was March 15, 2011. This was 5 months after Continue reading Harvesting @DataONEorg Twitter Mentions via Topsy
DataONE has been around since 2010. It’s an NSF project so it’s continually evaluated for performance. One metric could be reach and engagement on social media, as a measure of awareness about DataONE. Since I’ve looked at open science sentiment analysis before, I volunteered to poke around a bit on Continue reading DataONE Community Engagement via Twitter
In the United States, the 1930s was far from a time of plenty. Through the Great Depression, Americans witnessed a razing of the financial system that, on the heels of the prosperous 1920s, seemed nearly incomprehensible. A time of hunger, homelessness, and desperation, the Great Depression sticks in our national Continue reading If Trees Could Talk
Acquiring and reusing data can seem intimidating for even the most experienced researchers. For graduate student Roger Dole, it was a new adventure altogether. Roger had spent the last two years of his studies specializing in global butterfly migration. With hopes of finding a paper topic that would really jumpstart Continue reading A First Foray into Data Sharing
Bev was fed up. She was in the middle of working on her PhD thesis which relied on data from a large and ongoing animal study. When she went to the storage freezer to retrieve some samples for her analyses, she found nothing. Or rather, she found boxes upon boxes of Continue reading Inventory Overload
Data loss: while we can use the arsenal of technology at our command to guard against it, sometimes the fortresses we have built are not as failsafe as we believe them to be. Sometimes when data loss happens, we kick ourselves for not being prepared, not taking the extra time Continue reading The Best Laid Schemes of Backups and Redundancy…
Lee was an environmental chemist at a prestigious university. For the past few years, he and his department had been developing green technology to help eliminate environmental pollutants. By collaborating with several of the leading researchers in the field, he hoped to develop innovative techniques for speedily degrading a range Continue reading The Hard Truth about Hardware Failure
In May when my open notebook was first set up, I considered the idea of “media management” in a post called “Open Notebook Science – Media Management.” I touched on Mendeley, Figshare, and Flickr as potential ways of sharing media. I now want to point out another post by Carly Continue reading Archiving Citation Libraries for Open Notebook Science
I think it’d be wise to add at least a mention of what an early adopter is related to the figshare article. Some poking around on Google Scholar shows there is both an organizational early adopter and an individual early adopter. I did a Google Scholar search for: individual AND Continue reading Defining “Early Adopters” of Data Sharing Platforms