Book Review: Visualize This by Nathan Yau
In July Wiley published the book Visualize This – The Flowing Data Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics. The book is...
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Google Scholar Citations, Researcher Profiles, and why we need an Open Bibliography
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Mendeley 1.0 released Today
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Did you receive spam because you published a paper?
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Conference microblogging: FriendFeed, Twitter and now Google+ ?
Blogging is a great format to report from conferences. The regular blog format works best for posts written at the end of the day – unless you are typing really fast. Microblogging, i.e. a number of...