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A Mendeley data mashup wins at Data In Sight hacker competition.
Two weekends ago, a group of developers and designers gathered at the Adobe offices in downtown San Francisco to work on data visualization projects taking open data sets and fusing them in creative ways to yield new insights. Datasets were provided by Infochimps and Factual and judges were brought in from some of the top…
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Think beyond the consumer internet: Hack for Knowledge!
Photo by Rui PereiraDo you dream of creating the Blippy for BriteKite, or the Gowalla for GetGlue? No? Well, maybe you’re thinking beyond better ways to sell stuff to people and wanting to try something a little bigger. You wouldn’t be alone. Universities, governmental bodies, and companies have increasingly begun to make their data available…
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Everyone's a winner with free AWS credits for Mendeley's $10001 Binary Battle API contest.
As the summer arrives, you may be thinking about taking some time off, maybe going to the beach to do something about that unhealthy pallor you acquired poring over the literature this past semester. Forget all that. Go buy some Vitamin D and come back inside, because I know exactly how you should spend the…
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The Top 10 research papers in computer science by Mendeley readership.
Since we recently announced our $10001 Binary Battle to promote applications built on the Mendeley API, I decided to take a look at the data to see what people have to work with. My analysis focused on our second largest discipline, Computer Science. My discipline, Biological Sciences, is the largest, but I started with this…
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Mendeley API – now public, now sexy?
Today we announce that the API is now open to anyone wishing to create fantastic tools with data that can change the world. This past April we released a beta version of the Mendeley API and invited a few developers to start building applications on top of all of the rich data found here. (See…
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