Publications by Noam Ross
Unconf 2017: The Roads Not Taken
Since June, we have been highlighting the many projects that emerged from this year's rOpenSci Unconf. These projects start many weeks before unconf participants gather in-person. Each year, we ask participants to propose and discuss project ideas ahead of time in a GitHub repo. This serves to get creative juices flowing as well as help people ge...
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A New Website
For me, the task of building a personal website is fraught with so many of my technical, aesthetic, and personal hangups that I hadn’t updated mine since mid-graduate school. Thanks to consistent pestering by Maëlle, though, I finally got around to re-building this one using a modern toolkit. Hopefully I can keep it up to date. Here are some o...
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Drake, Docker, and Gitlab-CI
For a number of reasons I’ve been trying out GitLab as a replacement for for both GitHub and various continuous integration systems, and have been exploring configurations useful for model-fitting pipelines. I turned one of these into an example repository that shows how to use GitLab together with the Rocker Docker images and the drake build ...
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Job Posting: Research Software Engineer at EcoHealth Alliance
I’m recruiting a Research Software Engineer to join my team at EcoHealth Alliance in New York. Details and how to apply can be found at https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/career/research-software-engineer. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: noamross.net: R posts . R-bloggers.com off...
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Job Posting: Research Software Engineer at EcoHealth Alliance
I’m recruiting a Research Software Engineer to join my team at EcoHealth Alliance in New York. Details and how to apply can be found at https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/career/research-software-engineer. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: noamross.net: R posts . R-bloggers.com off...
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Git Hosting for the Distraught and the Restless
It’s generally impossible to only use services, private or government, that perfectly align with one’s values, so one must opt to choose one’s battles. The controversy over GitHub’s contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the latest such battle in the open-source software world. GitHub employees and users are trying to ...
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