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Maximizing Network Lifetime on the Line with Adjustable Sensing Ranges

Given n sensors on a line, each of which is equipped with a unit battery charge and an adjustable sensing radius, what schedule will maximize the lifetime of a network that covers the entire line?...

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The Forestecology R Package for Fitting and Assessing Neighborhood Models of...

Neighborhood competition models are powerful tools to measure the effect of interspecific competition. Statistical methods to ease the application of these models are currently lacking. We present the...

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Teaching Computational Machine Learning (without Statistics)

This paper presents an undergraduate machine learning course that emphasizes algorithmic understanding and programming skills while assuming no statistical training. Emphasizing the development of...

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SuPP & MaPP: Adaptable Structure-Based Representations For Mir Tasks

Accurate and flexible representations of music data are paramount to addressing MIR tasks, yet many of the existing approaches are difficult to interpret or rigid in nature. This work introduces two...

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Automatic Hierarchy Expansion for Improved Structure and Chord Evaluation

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Infer: An R Package for Tidyverse-Friendly Statistical Inference

infer implements an expressive grammar to perform statistical inference that adheres to the tidyverse design framework (Wickham et al., 2019). Rather than providing methods for specific statistical...

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Facilitating Team-Based Data Science: Lessons Learned from the DSC-WAV Project

While coursework provides undergraduate data science students with some relevant analytic skills, many are not given the rich experiences with data and computing they need to be successful in the...

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An Educator’s Perspective of the Tidyverse

Computing makes up a large and growing component of data science and statistics courses. Many of those courses, especially when taught by faculty who are statisticians by training, teach R as the...

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Population Modeling with Machine Learning can Enhance Measures of Mental...

Efforts to predict trait phenotypes based on functional MRI data from large cohorts have been hampered by low prediction accuracy and/or small effect sizes. Although these findings are highly...

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Mental Health in the UK Biobank: A Roadmap to Self-Report Measures and...

The UK Biobank (UKB) is a highly promising dataset for brain biomarker research into population mental health due to its unprecedented sample size and extensive phenotypic, imaging, and biological...

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Evaluation of EDISON's Data Science Competency Framework Through a...

During the emergence of Data Science as a distinct discipline, discussions of what exactly constitutes Data Science have been a source of contention, with no clear resolution. These disagreements have...

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Implementing GitHub Actions Continuous Integration to Reduce Error Rates in...

Accurate field data are essential to understanding ecological systems and forecasting their responses to global change. Yet, data collection errors are common, and data analysis often lags far enough...

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Attending to the Cultures of Data Science Work

This essay reflects on the shifting attention to the “social” and the “cultural” in data science communities. While recently the “social” and the “cultural” have been prioritized in data science...

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Accountable Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Disclosure Datasets

This paper attends specifically to what I call "disclosure datasets"- tabular datasets produced in accordance with laws requiring various kinds of disclosure. For the purposes of this paper, the most...

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Moving Ethnography: Infrastructuring Doubletakes and Switchbacks in...

In this article, we describe how our work at a particular nexus of STS, ethnography, and critical theory—informed by experimental sensibilities in both the arts and sciences—transformed as we built...

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Reading Datasets: Strategies for Interpreting the Politics of Data Signification

All datasets emerge from and are enmeshed in power-laden semiotic systems. While emerging data ethics curriculum is supporting data science students in identifying data biases and their consequences,...

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Classification as Catachresis: Double Binds of Representing Difference with...

Background; This article explores the results of a three-year ethnographic study of how semiotic infrastructures-or digital standards and frameworks such as taxonomies, schemas, and ontologies that...

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Data Sharing at Scale: A Heuristic for Affirming Data Cultures

Addressing the most pressing contemporary social, environmental, and technological challenges will require integrating insights and sharing data across disciplines, geographies, and cultures....

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Devious Design: Digital Infrastructure Challenges for Experimental Ethnography

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Pushback: Critical Data Designers and Pollution Politics

In this paper, we describe how critical data designers have created projects that ‘push back’ against the eclipse of environmental problems by dominant orders: the pioneering pollution database...

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