Rolf Lohaus, a Huxley postdoctoral fellow here in the EEB dept at Rice University, gave our R course a talk on basic visualizations in R this morning.

Enjoy!

Crowdsourced funding is becoming a sustainable way for various artists, entrepreneurs, etc. to get their idea funded from individuals. For example, think of Kickstarter and RocketHub.


Jai Ranganathan and Jarrett Byrnes have started an experiment to determine how well crowdfunding can work for scientists: The SciFund Challenge. Go here to signup and here for their website.


The deadline to sign up is Oct. 1

The O'Reilly Media Strata Summit has many interviews on YouTube (just search YouTube for it)

Drew Conway is the author of a R packages, including infochimps, an R wrapper to the Infochimps API service.

The YouTube video:

Carl Boettiger gave a talk on the topic of open science to incoming UC Davis graduate students.

Here is the audio click here

Here are the slides clickhere