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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I am asking you for a big favor in this blog post! You can help me to achieve one of my childhood dreams: I am an enthusiastic teacher and love to share information (as you might have seen by reading my blog) Over the last month I have designed [...]

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René Pickhardt on May 1st, 2013

The slides of my talk in the web science education workshop can be found here. The talk was about two things: Our application for the web science mooc (

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René Pickhardt on April 12th, 2013

please find all the information of the talk in oxford. the slides of the talk just given in at Rigour and Openness in Oxford the original product requirement document for the related work project technical slides about related work at FOSDEM 2013 the source code the data Btw it will be build on graphity to [...]

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René Pickhardt on March 26th, 2013

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In July 2012 we taught a course for the German National Summer School for high school students. The course consisted of 50 hours over 14 days. Due to some specific settings of the Summer School we had to make a few adjustments to the format of our curriculum and [...]

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René Pickhardt on March 19th, 2013

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: During the past two months I invested quite some of my spare free time to contribute to the organization of the open access event Rigor and Openness in 21st century science which will take place in the University of Oxford on April 11th and 12th. The Idea of the [...]

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Being strong pro on the topic of open access I always try to publish all my work on my blog but sometimes I am busy or I forget to update so today I took the time to look at all my old drafts and the stuff that hasn’t been [...]

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: During my vaccation a lot of stuff has been happened and it was just for today that I came along the following article and discussion: http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/. Yes you read correctly the royal society wants to create open access to all publications financed by the British government. What a big [...]

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Almost 2 months ago I talked in our oberseminar about Typology. Update: Download slides Most readers of my blog will already know the project which was initially implemented by my students Till and Paul. I am just about to share some slides with you. They explain on one hand [...]

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: My graph index graphity was – as mentioned in another blogpost – accepted at socialcom 2012. After I explained how it works and sharted the source code I now want to share some information about the history of submissions, reviews, quality of reviews, taken actions and so on. So [...]

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René Pickhardt on June 13th, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Current readers of my blog know about typology. The project which makes predictions of what you will type in next on your smartphone. This is of course pretty similar to Swiftkey. Amazing to see how xkcd took swiftkey as a topic for the current comic. More amazing is that [...]

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