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Posts tagged “Technology”
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Riemann On Rails (Part Two)
In a previous post we looked at how to generate metrics in a Ruby on Rails application and how to pass this data into Riemann. In this post we will cover some basics of configuring a Riemann server as well as how we can go about processing our...
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Google Glass for researchers
The engineering group at Digital Science have recently become proud members of the Google Glass Explorers programme thanks to our small pitch on Google+.
In anticipation of receiving our Google Glass unit in the next couple of months...
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Riemann On Rails (Part One)
Application metrics can provide a useful insight into the inner workings of your application. A metric might be the time taken to run a database query, how long a user stayed on one of your pages or generated when an exception is raised. We could...
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Digital Science Hackbreaks: The SureChem Mobile App
Earlier this year, a group of Digital Science engineers decamped to a holiday home in Norfolk for three days of intensive hacking. This blog posting is about one of the applications developed at the Hackbreak: SureChem Mobile...
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Mining Patents in the Cloud (part 3): Design Issues
The final part of this series of blog postings digs into the design of the SureChemOpen pipeline, discussing what worked well, what didn’t work quite so well, and describing a few pitfalls you might encounter if you’re thinking of building a cloud-based data mining pipeline of your own.
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Mining Patents in the Cloud (part 2): Amazon Web Services
Part one of this series of articles described SureChem's data processing pipeline. In part two below, we describe how the pipeline is implemented using different cloud services provided by Amazon.
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Mining patents in the Cloud (part 1): the SureChem data processing pipeline
Digital Science recently launched SureChemOpen, a free service to help research chemists to find interesting chemistry in patents. This article is about the text mining infrastructure that makes SureChemOpen possible.
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Presenting Baton
We, at Digital Science, are pleased to announce that we open sourced one of the key pieces of our technical infrastructure, baton, which is a general purpose tool to query and run commands on our servers. It provides a basic framework that is...
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Welcome to the Digital Science technology blog
With the launch of the new Digital Science website, it's great to announce that our engineering team will finally have a dedicated place to talk about the projects and technologies they're working on, and the events we're attending. We'll also...
