Questions tagged [databases]
A database is a systematized collection of data that can be accessed immediately and manipulated by a data-processing system for a specific purpose.
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Database of top researchers by keyword [closed]
I am looking for a database/web-service that allows me to find the top researchers (e.g., by number of citations) in a specific field (e.g., by keywords such as nutrigenomics). I once used it but for ...
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Who owns the copyright of the acquisition of an object or sample owned by a third party?
Our lab performed 3D scans of materials (e.g. metals, rocks etc.) produced by other institutions and universities. But I am also interested in other analyses.
I was wondering who has the copyright on ...
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Acces to database as guest auditor at another university
For my doctorate (economics) I absolutely need access to a scientific database. The problem is that my university unfortunately does not offer this database in its library.
The database access as well ...
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Is it ok (ethically speaking) to rename features of a dataset for publishing?
I work in the machine learning field where I deal with datasets provided by an industrial partner, and one concern of the project is the confidentiality of the data.
My team is working on a fault ...
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Is the maintainer of a database a good or bad reviewer in principle?
I have used a large database comprising the equivalent of about 10 studies.
Would the researcher in charge of this database be a good peer reviewer? As an editor, would they be a good selection?
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Tools for creating and managing a Data Dictionary [closed]
I'm looking for tools to create a data dictionary for my project's data. We have a large database of many variables, and I would like to create a data dictionary that describes what each variable ...
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An equivalent of arXiv, but for tabular and other experimental data? [duplicate]
Suppose I'm doing some experimental work in an academic context. The essence of the results will likely be captured by documents such as conference/journal articles, technical reports, a M.Sc. or Ph.D....
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Find articles that share datasets and code
I am working on some project, in which I would like to find articles where they use some computer code to treat data, and the used datasets and code is totally available (github, personal website, etc)...
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Is it possible to get a list of everyone who graduated from a college in a given year/field?
I am interested in doing a project on graduate life-paths and need to be able to see the cohort a student graduated in in a given subject?
i.e. can I say I want a list of all the people who graduated ...
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Create journal database: is there any easy way to auto-download all the citations of a volume or all the volumes of a journal?
I am trying to create my own research database. The first step for me to do is to identify the journals that I need to read and refer to. The way I create the searching database is by copying all the ...
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Best platform to publicaly share data
I'm in the final stage of my PhD, and want to make my datasets publicly available. This is so that my examiners can re-run my regressions, if they wish; but moreover, I want other scholars to be able ...
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Building a local database from Web of Science and Scopus search results
I would like to build a local bibliography database (possibly with SQL) with the data exported from Web of Science (WOS) search results. I can export these online query results in a BibTeX file and ...
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Reproducible, open, transparent, ethical Research when confronted to (patient) data anonymization : is it at all possible in practice?
A lot of Hype goes in reproducible, open and transparency for data analysis theses days in some fields mores that other. The code is to be share as well as the dataset.
How to achieve this in a ...
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Historical Course Descriptions for Master's and Ph.D in Statistics/Data Science Programs [closed]
I'm writing to ask whether there's any references for course descriptions for the classes required of a master's degree back in the 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s,...., 1900s. I wanted to know how the ...
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If I change my research group, can my former supervisor restrict my access to my codes that are written by myself?
Recently, I quitted my current research group and I will start to work with someone else. I was in my former research group for almost three years and during these three years I wrote more 200,000 ...
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