Once a customer's data is in the Keen.io service, they can be their own data scientists and slice and dice data and run experiments against historical data in order to gain insight into app users behavior.
Although the journal's goal is to make it easier to publish bits and pieces of science, critics argue that it could exacerbate another problem: enabling scientists to slice a large body of findings into many manuscripts, in order to boost authorship. .
The scientists cut the worms into thousands of thin slices and took pictures through an electron microscope to track the connection of all nerve cells with one another.
The appointment of a physicist-turned-molecular biologist as Russia's new science minister could help the nation's natural scientists grab a bigger slice of the funding pie.
And "I believe it falls, as well, to our grantees to come forward with only their strongest science"—wishful thinking perhaps, given that virtually every biomedical scientist is seeking a slice of the stimulus package.
Three-dimensional visualization is useful for these distributions, because it helps scientists decide which two-dimensional slice displays properly the important characteristics of a plasma distribution with a structure that is too complicated to be visualized entirely.
In lieu of the traditional approach of having scientists monitor their own tiny slice of the world, using their own methods and instruments, NEON would standardize the process and collect data on a massive, continental scale.
Tracey Fern ("Buffalo Music," "Pippo the Fool") turns a slice of a scientist's biography into an American adventure tale, describing how Brown and his rivals at other museums raced to find the best fossils and to discover new species.
"There's a certain feeling of ease and pleasure for me as a scientist that any way you slice the data, it's statistically significant," said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a top AIDS expert in the United States government, which paid most of the trial's costs.
Such a system often encourages early-career scientists to engage in "salami slicing, where you have a little bit of data and you … cut it thinly so that it goes into lots of different articles," says Elizabeth Wager, who is a publications consultant based in the United Kingdom and visiting professor at the University of Split School of Medicine in Croatia.
