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blog SciGraph 2017-2023.
Feb 2023
Springer Nature retired SciGraph earlier this month. I have been the data architect and then technical lead for this project, so this is post is just a reminder of the great things we did in it. Also, a little rant about the things that weren't that great...
blog Paperpile: a PDF manager with Google Drive backend.
Jan 2023
Paperpile is an online PDF manager that stores your personal data in your Google Drive folder.
blog Ontospy version 2.0 released.
Oct 2022
Version 2 of the library includes SHACL support as well as various internal refactoring. Ontospy is an open source Python library and command line tool for working with vocabularies encoded in the RDF family of languages.
Sep 2022 International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022), Granada, Sep 2022.
The growth of large, programatically accessible bibliometrics databases presents new opportunities for complex analyses of publication metadata. In addition to providing a wealth of information about authors and institutions, databases such as those provided by Dimensions also provide conceptual information and links to entities such as grants, funders and patents. However, data is not the only challenge in evaluating patterns in scholarly work: These large datasets can be challenging to integrate, particularly for those unfamiliar with the complex schemas necessary for accommodating such heterogeneous information, and those most comfortable with data mining may not be as experienced in data visualisation. Here, we present an open-source Python library that streamlines the process accessing and diagramming subsets of the Dimensions on Google BigQuery database and demonstrate its use on the freely available Dimensions COVID-19 dataset. We are optimistic that this tool will expand access to this valuable information by streamlining what would otherwise be multiple complex technical tasks, enabling more researchers to examine patterns in research focus and collaboration over time.
blog Bringing quotations back to life.
Jul 2022
There's a new section on this site that allows to navigate quotations. It's just a cut-down implementation of an old idea I worked on a while ago, but you know.. sometimes it is useful to start from scratch and re-think things from the ground up.
blog A semi-automated conference assistant.
Jun 2022
A couple of weeks ago I went to the excellent Move Or Perish—Scientific Trajectories, Inclusion, And Inequality, And Their Consequences For Transformative Science workshop in Vienna. While getting ready for it, I found myself asking some familiar questions. Who are the speakers? What is their background? How to best contextualise the topics being discussed?
blog Three things I do *not* like about Looker.
Apr 2022
Following up on my previous 3 things I like about Looker , here are instead the top three things that I really wish were different about this piece of software.
blog Composition: 'Study for Cello and Double-bass'.
Apr 2022
A new livecoding composition using Extempore and Ableton Live: 'Study for Cello and Double-bass'.
blog Three things I like about Looker.
Mar 2022
Looker is a business intelligence and data visualization tool which was recenlty acquired by Google. After nearly 6 months of using Looker for building dashboards and visual analytics, here are the top 3 things I like about this platform.
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