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Nature's big data special, free for 2 weeks
Maxine Clarke
Thursday, 04 September 2008 09:52 UTC
There is a “Big Data” special in this week’s (4 Sept 2008) issue of Nature. The articles in the package look at how massive influxes of data are changing the way science is done in many fields, and include a feature story on ‘Wikiomics’ (written by Mitch Waldrop) that might be of particular interest to the science 2.0 community.
In any case, all the articles, as well as downloadable PDFs of the print versions, will be free online for two weeks from today. We encourage you to download everything you are interested in—and then to spread the word to friends and colleagues about what you like (and don’t like!) via email, blog, commenting online at the nature.com website where the articles are published, here in this forum in the lead-up to the BL meeting on 24 Sept, and elsewhere. And of course, don’t forget that Nature always welcomes letters to the editor at corres@nature.com so please submit your feedback on the articles to the Correspondence section of the journal, too.
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Those doing the London science tour last Friday already had a glimpse of the cover. Now we can read the articles, and they are definetely worth it. Although I hate everything -omics, I enjoyed the Wikiomics article by Mitch Waldrop. This and similar articles hopefully help to bring wikis more into the scientific mainstream.
Mitch talks about the issue of credit-assignment when contributing to a wiki. This is a topic that was also touched at the science blogging conference with regard to science blogging. My personal view is that contribution to a wiki or blog should be appreciated in a general sense, but that we should not try to track and measure these contributions in the same way as journal publications.
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Lots of reactions to these articles:
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=%22big+data%22+%2Bnature&sa=N&start=0
http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/04/nature-mag-gives-short-shrift-to-baseload-solar/
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/the-carbon-free-energy-gap-4539
http://www.morganenergy.com/?p=140 followed up here http://www.morganenergy.com/?p=160
http://ahuramazdah.blogspot.com/2008/08/alternativas-energticas-electricidad_27.html
(basically a translation into Spanish, with each section done separately)
http://www.ahoneyofananklet.com/2008/08/27/adding-it-up-2/
http://www.world-of-science-news.com/world-of-science-news/amazing-alt-energy-overview-at-nature-the-island-of-doubt/
http://a21.dk/blog/2008/08/18/co2-fri-elektricitet/
long summary in Swedishhttp://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2008/08/electricity_without_carbon_fue.html
http://heliophage.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/get-your-terawatts-here/
http://rahul-basu.blogspot.com/2008/08/energy-needs-india-and-world.html
http://genesafari.blogspot.com/2008/08/electricity-without-carbon.html
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