http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/740.html Data is ones and zeroes | Software is ones and zeroes and hard work. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/740.html#comment-757 Greg Wilson Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:45:01 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/740.html#comment-757 Wow, that was quick turnaround ;-) I'm very interested in Swivel because I teach an open source course on basic software engineering skills for scientists and engineers (http://swc.scipy.org); having high-quality data sets available to mess with will make life a lot easier, and provide "good practice" examples for grad students. My concern is quality control: what are you planning to put in place to give people an idea of how trustworthy data is? Or is your model to become "Wikipedia for data"? ;-) Wow, that was quick turnaround I’m very interested in Swivel
because I teach an open source course on basic software engineering
skills for scientists and engineers (http://swc.scipy.org); having
high-quality data sets available to mess with will make life a lot
easier, and provide “good practice” examples for grad students. My
concern is quality control: what are you planning to put in place
to give people an idea of how trustworthy data is? Or is your model
to become “Wikipedia for data”?

]]> http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/740.html#comment-756 Brian Mulloy Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:30:22 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/740.html#comment-756 A lot of folks started saying YouTube for data, but Dmitry and I both chuckle because it wasn't us. We are going to focus on making data something you can have fun clicking around in, instead of something you need a manual to operate. Dmitry and I both studied physics and on the one hand we agree with you, Swivel will probably not be for science: the competition is pretty fierce with Mathematica (a very inspirational piece of software) on the one hand and GNUPlot on the other. However, we hope that the same honest, open peer review process that drives good science in academia will also drive balanced and fair data verification and validation at Swivel. The cool thing about a Web site versus a piece of software like GNUPlot is that a Web site is half communication vehicle. So, we hope that the validation and verification actually accelerates at Swivel. Please swing on by once we open up. A lot of folks started saying YouTube for data, but Dmitry and I both chuckle because it wasn’t us. We are going to focus on making data something you can have fun clicking around in, instead of something you need a manual to operate. Dmitry and I both studied physics and on the one hand we agree with you, Swivel will probably not be for science: the competition is pretty fierce with Mathematica (a very inspirational piece of software) on the one hand and GNUPlot on the other. However, we hope that the same honest, open peer review process that drives good science in academia will also drive balanced and fair data verification and validation at Swivel. The cool thing about a Web site versus a piece of software like GNUPlot is that a Web site is half communication vehicle. So, we hope that the validation and verification actually accelerates at Swivel. Please swing on by once we open up.

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