The trouble with keynotes
A keynote is a presentation typically given at a start of a conference that sets the central theme for the...
Martin Fenner
Creating charts with Datawrapper
Figures are an important part of any scientific document. While the kind of figure commonly used obviously varies between disciplines, charts are an important part of many publications. There are two problems in how charts are...
Altmetrics: first we need the for what? and only then the how? OK?
Altmetrics track the impact of scholarly works in the social web. Article-Level Metrics focuses on articles, but also looks at...
Auto generating links to data and resources
A few weeks ago Kafkas et al. (2013) published a paper looking at current patterns of how datasets o biological...
Metadata in Scholarly Markdown
Scholarly documents often need metadata that describe them: typically author(s), title and location (DOI or URL), but possibly many other things. For some metadata it makes sense to store them in the document text, e....
Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data
This paper in markdown format was written by Ethan White et al. The markdown file and the associated bibliogaphy and figure files are available from the Github repository of the paper. I used this version, an...