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Getting Started with Data Sharing: Advice for Researchers in Education
Christine M. White, Stephanie A. Estrera, Christopher Schatschneider, Sara A. Hart, EdArXiv, 2024/02/02

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"Researchers in the education sciences value data sharing and that many either have shared or intend to share data. However, an objective look at the rate of data availability in peer-reviewed research journals paints a different picture." Thus we see a need for this publication (23 page MS-Word), which gives researchers in education background and advice on data sharing. It summarizes "curated list of existing guides to sharing research data," creating a table of "general steps to data sharing and curated resources." It then offers advice on where and when to share your data.It's worth noting that "Openly accessible data also supports pedagogy and democratizes participation in science by enabling students and early career researchers to pose research questions and perform secondary analyses on data they may not have time or resources to personally collect."

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Forecasting: Principles and Practice (3rd ed)
Rob J Hyndman, George Athanasopoulos, OTexts, 2024/02/02

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This is yet another item I'm saving for myself for future reference. It's an open online textbook on forecasting. It's normally intended for business majors (meaning that if it were a typical book I would never have seen it) but for someone who habitually predicts the future like me it is at least potentially useful. And you have to like a book that starts by introducing forecasting by maggots in sheep's organs. "Hopefully the software we use now has fewer bugs in it than one of these livers."

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How to manage a Discord community
IFTTT, YouTube, 2024/02/02

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I'm including this item in the newsletter so I have it to refer back to. At this moment, it refers to an event in the future, but I will be driving when the event happens, so I want to watch the recording after. Discord is an online tool for discussions and conversations, and its widely used, especially in the gaming community.

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Building Your Own Product Copilot: Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs
Chris Parnin, Gustavo Soares, Rahul Pandita, Sumit Gulwani, Jessica Rich, Austin Z. Henley, arXiv.org, 2024/02/02

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I can attest to the results of this study (11 page PDF), which presents "the findings of an interview study with 26 professional software engineers responsible for building product copilots at various companies" and finds "pain points at every step of the engineering process and the challenges that strained existing development practices." Prompt engineering, in particular, is "more of an art than a science." The article is especially useful for its development of a "high-level workflow of building a copilot that we iteratively developed from the interviews (illustrated)".

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