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Open source and science take many of the same approaches to investigation and discovery, making them natural allies. Learn more about the intersection of open source and science in these articles.

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New research article type embeds live code and data

The non-profit scientific research publication platform eLife recently announced the Reproducible Document Stack (RDS).
Giuliano Maciocci Emmy Tsang 02 Aug 2019
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Teaching scientists how to share code

This course teaches them how to set up a GitHub project, index their project in Zenodo, and integrate Git into an RStudio workflow.
Jon Tennant 25 Feb 2019
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NetLogo for scientific research: Modeling

Learn more about this tool for modeling a variety of natural and social phenomena.
Peter Cheer 06 Feb 2019 1 comment
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Open source space academy opens in Nairobi

African school uses open source tools and principles to prepare underserved students for future-focused careers.
Mick Larson 06 Jan 2019 4 comments
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Protecting the world’s oceans with open data science

What does an open source approach to environmental research look like?
Julia Stewart Lowndes 14 Dec 2018 1 comment
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New research agreement opens up for universities and companies

Traditional contracts hamstring research collaborators by increasing costs and delaying investigations.
Joshua Pearce 27 Jul 2018 4 comments
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Building hearing aids with a Linux-based open hardware board

Open source platform for improving hearing aids uses a BeagleBone Black for its next iteration.
Daniel James Christopher Obbard 11 Jul 2018 2 comments
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Getting started with Jupyter Notebooks

Create interactive, shareable notebooks with live code, equations, visualizations, and text using Jupyter.
Don Watkins (Correspondent) 28 Mar 2018 1 comment

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