Tag: sharing

  • Hey Data People, The NIH needs your help

    Hey Data People, The NIH needs your help

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is creating a Data Management and Sharing Policy. They are currently looking for input on the policy. The NIH funds a lot of research, and this policy will affect the data and results researchers produce. NIH’s DRAFT Data Management and Sharing Policy: We Need to Hear From You! This…

  • Beyond Alphabet Soup: 5 Guidelines For Data Sharing

    Beyond Alphabet Soup: 5 Guidelines For Data Sharing is an excellent post by Markets for Good and Palantir Technologies. Below are the 5 Guidelines. Release structured raw data others can use Make your data machine-readable Make your data human-readable Use an open-data format Release responsibly and plan ahead See the full blog post with detailed…

  • Heroku Thinks Sharing Data is Important

    Last week,  Heroku announced a new feature to its PostgreSQL database service.  The new feature is called Data Clip, and it allows users to share results of an SQL query.  It has options to store the exact data from when the query was originally run or the query can be refreshed to return the current data.  I…