Recently I've had several conversations with open source friends and colleagues, each discussion touching upon—but not directly focused on—the subject of why a company would…
So you decided to use metrics to track your free, open source software (FOSS) community. Now comes the big question: Which metrics should I be tracking? To answer this…
In part one of my series on using open source in research, I looked at LibreOffice, LaTeX, and two packages to use in psychology experiments. In this article, I show you…
When I talk about open source software the first thing I always mention is community and collaboration. I leave the talk of licenses and software development for later…
Welcome to the third installment of my monthly column, where I explore how open source software and the open source way are used in the digital humanities. Every month I take…
We’ve all heard about big data; over the past few years, many companies have invested in Hadoop, NoSQL, and data warehouses, to collect and store massive volumes of new data…
