Core Facility Blog
Hi there, this is the blog for the Core Facility at the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen). We use the blog to keep track of what we're up to and of interesting developments for biodiversity and the biosciences. You can find us at http://researchdesktop.org
Wednesday 1 September 2010
Atlas of Living Australia Gadget and Feed
The Atlas of Living Australia is a great new resource on biodiversity. We have added a search gadget and feed gadget to the Biodiversity Desktop.
Twitter Search Gadget for Biodiversity
We have added a Twitter Search Gadget to the Biodiversity Desktop. It's great for catching up on fresh tweets or searching for species and biodiversity tweets.
Tuesday 24 August 2010
Desktop Themes
We have released a feed detailing the different themes provided by the Desktop. The feed is available at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ResearchDesktopThemes. This feed can be added to web page at http://researchdesktop.org/embed-feed.jsp?feedURL=http://feeds.feedburner.com/ResearchDesktopThemes.
Thursday 19 August 2010
Places that works like Foursquare
Facebook has introduced a service called Places that works like Foursquare. To disable follow the instructions from Life Hacker
Wednesday 18 August 2010
Added Top Endangered Species Feed
We have added an endangered species feed that links to the Biodiversity desktop.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TopEndangeredSpecies
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TopEndangeredSpecies
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Tableau Desktop
We are learning how to use Tableau Desktop analytics software at the moment. It is marketed as a data visualization and business intelligence tool. It produces some fantastic visualizations and there is a very good gallery of public images. It is worth visiting their gallery for some fantastic examples of what can be done. This is not exactly a home purchase but it is well priced for the desktop version and well worth the money. The easiest way to describe it is as rocket powered visual pivot tables. The charts and maps can be saved as images or into pdf. There is a free version called Tableau public that people can play with and free reader software. Well worth a try and I could see more researchers in universities using this tool.
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