DTU in Copenhagen hosts a fantastic data scientist training for librarians. http://www.altbibl.io/dtu/ All you need to know about and understand how a researcher works with their data; cool words are involved like data-scrapin', data wranglin' and more. Register here and get data-savvy yourself. Data Scientist Training for Librarians (DST4L) is an experimental course, started at …
THOR – Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research
THe Onion Router vs Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research. Despite of the terrible confusing acronyms used in EU projects, I do sympathise with the important initiative linking the world's body of scientific artifacts. http://project-thor.eu My current THOR-like activities involve Research Data Management training for PhD's at TU Delft and University of Twente, where …
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Data carpentry
Data Carpentry aims to teach the skills that will enable researchers to be more effective and productive. The workshop is designed for learners with little to no prior knowledge of programming, shell scripting, or command line tools. http://datacarpentry.org Upcoming events Workshop at Utrecht University 24-25 June 2015 Instructors: Karthik Ram, Aleksandra Pawlik Sponsored by ELIXIR
School of data
School of Data works to empower civil society organizations, journalists and citizens with the skills they need to use data effectively – evidence is power! http://schoolofdata.org/ For me it is a great way to learn and understand what a researcher must do with data.
Open Access Button
This is an interesting tool every PhD student and researcher should know about, especially when they are frustrated by pay walls for scientific articles. And the anoyances rise when there probably already is an open access version around. The solution: Open Access button. It is a simple bookmarklet you use when browsing the web and …
Bekeken door de tijd – maart 2015
Bekeken door de tijd from Maurice Vanderfeesten on Vimeo.
Uitwaaien
Lekker uitwaaien op Texel rond Oud 2013 en Nieuw 2014
App and Data Market for Researchers
As a researcher you have to make a cost estimate of your project. Wouldn't it be really nice to have a one-stop shop where you can select your research analytics tools like R (as a service) and your datasets, all in the cloud by the way, and pay at a checkout counter. This is just …
Incarnation of a Song – April 2014
Incarnation of a Song from Maurice Vanderfeesten on Vimeo. This video has been made as a photo presentation in the photography course I have done. This photography course has been given by the well renowned photographer Jelmer de Haas. This photo documentary tells the story of a sing and songwriter. The inspiration he gets, the …
Fotocursus
Vanaf 14 februari volg ik een fotocursus, basis. Elke week moet ik een opdracht doen en deze foto's de week er na meenemen. Hieronder maak ik een serie waarin ik de foto's toon die ik gemaakt heb met de opdracht er bij. 0 - voorbereiding op eerste curusdag - januari Fijn dat je je hebt …