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Guest Post — There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI

A data scientist reviews ScopusAI (beta) and shares her analysis of its limitations, reliability, and potential.

  • By Teresa Kubacka
  • Feb 21, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

What is the Blockchain Really, and Should You Care? A Guide for the Perplexed Scholarly Publishing Citizen.

Here’s your 12 point guide to blockchain. Written for non-technically minded scholarly publishing folk

  • By David Smith
  • Jun 27, 2019
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Virtual Reality Research — Some Early Problems with Data Reanalysis and Risks of Open Data

The idea of “reanalysis” needs to be rethought, if recent examples are any indication of what this trend could do to science.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 16, 2014
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Rethinking Open Data Initiatives: It Turns Out Open Data Costs Money, Needs a Purpose

Experienced Open Data advocates realize that making data available costs money, making people aware of the data costs money, and creating a community of users costs money. And that data aren’t that easy to open.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 4, 2010
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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