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Great post from Mike Croucher on HPC and Research Software Engineering.

http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=6305

High Performance Computing – There’s plenty of room at the bottom UK to launch 6 major HPC centres Tomorrow, I’ll be attending the launch event for the UK’s new HPC centres and have been asked to deliver a short talk as part of the program. As someone…

The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now… Over the next 12–24 months — in other words, between 2018 and 2019 — how software developers are hired is going to change radically.

A couple of posts on "Joel Tests" for data science: https://blog.dominodatalab.com/joel-test-data-science/ https://medium.com//the-joel-test-for-data-readiness-4882aae64753 #.lgwjuwqcz

The "Joel Test" for Data Science We think data science is going through a phase of maturation, so we've written a "Joel Test" for assessing the maturity of your data science program.

A post on "Data Readiness Levels" for helping quantify the value associated with data. A principle that is important for data science. http://inverseprobability.com/2017/01/12/data-readiness-levels

Data Readiness Levels Application of models to data is fraught. You are faced with collaborators who sometimes have a very basic understanding of the complications of collating, processing and curating data. Challenges include: poor data collection practices, missing values, inconvenient storage mechanisms, intellectual…

Code Cafe run by Mike Croucher and David Jones. Keep an eye out for further events like this (join Mike's Research Software Engineering google group for info: https://groups.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/forum/ #!forum/rse-group).

http://opendsi.cc/2016/03/10/R-code-cafe.html

R Code Cafe at Coffee Revolution Mike Croucher, David Jones, Claire Green and Will Furnass organised the University’s first ‘Code Cafe’ at Coffee Revolution last week. Mike relates some of the issues in his blog post on it here.

Mike Croucher, our recently annointed EPSRC RSE fellow now talking on "Is your research software correct?" https://t.co/as4UguDXC6

Is Your Research Software Correct? Is Your Research Software Correct?

data@sheffield event today, currently we're hearing from Farida Vis of the University of Sheffield's Visual Social Media Lab (in the iSchool) on the effects of the Aylan Kurdi image. Press release about their report (which has been widely covered in the news) here: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/aylan-kurdi-social-media-report-1.533951

Aylan Kurdi: How a single image transformed the debate on immigration - News releases - News -...

Bradfield Brewery cask ale at The Data Hide.

Learning curves in Behaviour

Open Science lunch with Kevin Murphy (JMLR), Andrew Ng (Coursera), Andrew Mcallum (Open Review) Paul Gisparg (Arxiv) and self (Open Data Science Initiative)

Michael Croucher of the ODSI shows how to do Word Clouds in R. http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5904 A reaction to the idea of sharing your Facebook feed with a company of unclear motivation.

Photographs from the third data hide on 17th November.