Color picker with R

2025-01-16

As we have learned over the years, there can never be enough color-picking…

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✚ Longer-Lasting Visualization

2025-01-16

Visualization quality is often measured by speed and efficiency, which leads to temporary and fleeting presentation work. Maybe we optimize for longevity and see what happens.

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Introducing pkglite for Python

2025-01-16

Les Menuires, France. Photo by Yann Allegre. I am pleased to introduce pkglite for Python, now available on PyPI. pkglite for Python provides a minimalist framework for packing source packages written in any programming language into a text file and restoring them to their original directory structure. You can install it with: pip install pkglite For installation as a global command-line tool, use pipx: pipx install pkglite Context Four years ago, we released the R package pkglite, designed for bidirectional conversion of R …

Why I like preregistration (and it’s not about p-hacking). When done right, it unifies the substance of science with the scientific method.

2025-01-16

This came up in comments to Jessica’s recent post. I like preregistration. It’s not something I used to do, and I still don’t always do it. I’ve worked on hundreds of research projects, and only a few of them had … Continue reading → …

My experience of getting codechecked

2025-01-16

By eScience Fellow Eduard KlapwijkThis year I was finalizing and publishing one of my own research projects. My coauthors and I took many steps to make the project as reproducible as possible.Because I am setting up a codecheck workflow to check the re…

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