Category: Open Source & Open Web
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NCSU STS 214 Citizen Science Project: Secchi Disk
Secchi Disk Citizen Science Project We decided to adapt the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Citizen Water Monitoring Program from https://scistarter.com/project/11021-MPCA-Citizen-Water-Monitoring-Program. This citizen science project focused on the monitoring of water quality and pollutants and is sponsored by the MPCA. The project calls for participants to use either a secchi disk, for use in lakes or…
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PressureNet: Great Beginner Citizen Science Project
Project: PressureNet By: Samuel Cynamon, Corey Atkins, Jialang Li We chose this project because it offers a unique opportunity to start a new initiative on campus to aide in the crowdsourcing weather app using recycled phone, and solar energy. Normally users just need to have it downloaded on their phone to allow the automatic reporting system to…
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Announcing #SocialDiss: Transforming the dissertation into networked knowledge production
To what extent can the general public participate in and benefit from the production of a dissertation? How might the private and anxiety-ridden processes of education be transformed into a public good and social joy? Are the imperfect artifacts of learning to be hidden and disposed of as shameful waste, or might they provide fertile…
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Codecademy: Educational Institution?
Most people use smartphones or laptops to communicate with one another and are aware of the fact that programming is a significant component behind making these things work. The issue at hand is that the majority of these people do not know how to write code. Two reasons for this would be that the person…
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Cytoscape and customizing your network
“Cytoscape is an open source and [Java-based] software for integrating biomolecular interaction networks with high-throughput expression data and other molecular states into a unified conceptual framework” (Shannon 2498). It uses graph theory for modeling and rendering to display interactive graphs. This application is very professional with a lot of features and requires good knowledge of Data analysis…
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Wiki-Contributing
For exercise 1 of this practicum, I visited the citation hunt project page and searched for a topic relevant to myself, track and field athletes. I stumbled upon a page that needed multiple citations, a former athlete and American beauty pageant winner Claire Schreiner. The citations I tried to add didn’t end up working, but this…
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Practicum: Network Analysis
I recently used Cytoscape – an open source platform for network analysis – to visualize the distribution of race and ethnicity among the deceased that law enforcement agencies killed in 2015 and 2016. I wanted to see which law enforcement agencies targeted which demographics of victims. I plan to use the information to focus activist…
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Voyant – DNC and RNC 2016
I have recently had the opportunity to explore Voyant – an open-source, web-based application for performing text analysis. The two speeches I analyzed were Donald Trump’s RNC speech and Hillary Clinton’s DNC speech. My first step was to visualize the two speeches by entering a URL that linked to them in the Voyant text box,…
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Experience Editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia has been an invaluable resource because it embodies so many of the best elements of the web. It takes advantage of the internets near zero marginal cost nature to become available to every single individual in the world for free. That is amazing! It has figured out effective community…