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Academia
Research
Practise
- Third party copyright description from the University of Cambridge
- UK Data Service has a description of the rights relating to research data
- Choosing a license for your open source repository
Publications
- Web of Science
- Internet Archive Scholar
- citation gecko is a tool to help you find relevant literature
- VOSviewer is a tool to visualise bibliometric networks
- Elsevier's reviewer guidance
- Ten tips for a truly terrible peer review (point 6 has some points for sanity checking a review)
- Beall's list of predatory journals
Career stuff
General
University of Oxford
University of Melbourne
Data
Where can I get data? Here are some links that might be helpful:
English language and writing
- Arg Garfunkel's favourite books
- Regex to find weasel words and use of passive voice
- Walden University: Writing Center's Grammar notes
- Write Simply (essay from Paul Graham)
- Advice on writing research articles (from Andrew Gelman)
- Which vs. That: How to Choose
- Precise emails: ACTION, SIGN, INFO, DECISION, REQUEST, COORD
- Beware of nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) - Helen Sword
- Plain English Campaign Guides
- Plain Language (from the US government)
Gadgets and hardware
- How and why I stopped buying new laptops contains useful information for reviving old laptops.
- GrapheneOS the private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility.
- CalyxOS Everyone needs a phone. Not everyone wants to be spied on. Reclaim your privacy with CalyxOS.
Mathematics, statistics and computation
Latex and Bibtex
Computer science
- Algorithms for Competitive Programming
- Grammar Zoo a collection of links to grammars of formal languages
- A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages
- A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Programming languages
Java
- Programming in Java, Computer Science, An Interdisciplinary Approach the books by Sedgewick and Wayne
- Java trails
Utilities
Statistics
- StatLab Articles from the University of Virginia Library
Visualisation
- Healthicons is a collection of free health related images
- Bioicons is a collection of free biology related images
- Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib is an open source book
- Vega visualisation grammar
- Vega-Lite
- Voyager a tool for rapid EDA
- Vega Cookbook
- Effective Figure Design course
- Babraham Bioinformatics course: Scientific Figure Design which includes some very nice notes on using Inkscape
- Dithering tools
- colorbrewer2
- colormaps for matplotlib
- DataVisProject: a catalogue of visualisation types
- ggplot2 extensions
- Medoid as a way to select the middle of a dataset
- Nomograms can be generated using PyNomo.
- R Graph Gallery
- R spatial blog posts
- WebPlotDigitizer for extracting data from figures