I’m considering sneaking syntax checking into the scientific code review process I’ve been running this quarter. Here are some resources:
PyLint: http://www.pylint.org/
RLint: https://code.google.com/p/google-rlint/ or http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lint/index.html
Stata Lint: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-08/msg01048.html http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?syntax http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?language
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CHD mortality over time:
USA http://ihmeuw.org/3b3f
Peru http://ihmeuw.org/3b3g
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Re https://healthyalgorithms.wordpress.com/?p=2750 , PLoS NTD published the paper I reviewed for them, too: http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0003181
Cool to see it in print. I wanted them to comment on the missing youth in their population pyramid, but I did not demand it:
I think the authors felt it was too speculative.
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Very exciting news about filling the gaps in our knowledge about health http://www.bloomberg.org/press/releases/bloomberg-philanthropies-launches-100-million-data-health-program-developing-countries/
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Abraham Flaxman
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Reviewer (2014)May 2015
Dear Abraham,
On behalf of PLOS and the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases editorial team, I would like to thank you for participating in the peer review process this past year at PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases We very much appreciate your valuable input in 2014. We know there are many claims on your time and expertise but with your help, we have continued to publish an influential, lively and highly accessed Open Access journal. Simply put, we could not do it without you and the thousands of other volunteers for PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases and the other PLOS journals who graciously contributed time reviewing manuscripts.
A public “Thank You” to our 2014 reviewers – including you – was published in February 2015.
(2015) PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2014 Reviewer Thank You. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 9(2): e0003621. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003621http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0003621
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I keep thinking of this article: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5986/1627.full
Don’t generalize too much from WIERDos
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The Reproducibility and Open Science (ROS) Working Group recently finished up a form to begin to gather information on Reproducible Products from the community.
Please take a few minutes to submit information on any product (peer-reviewed manuscript, preprint, or other product). It is only about 20 questions with many multiple choice question.
The google form can be accessed @
http://goo.gl/hHcFlKPlease feel free to let us know if you have any questions or comments.
Thanks
StevenSteven Roberts
faculty.washington.edu/sr320
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Pandas has it: http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/categorical.html
Python has it, too: https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html
Will this make my life easier?
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A fun pointer I picked up at the eScience institute recently is where to find constants in python: scipy.constants http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/constants.html
or, if you fancy units, astropy.constants http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/constants/index.html
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The numpy docstring style should be just fine: http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example_numpy.html
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Healthy Algorithms 