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SustainEpisode 236: Eva Maxfield Brown & Boris Veytsman on OSS Dependencies in the SciencesGuests
Eva Maxfield Brown | Boris Veytsman
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer engages with guests Eva Maxfield Brown and Boris Veytsman to explore their co-authored paper, "Biomedical Open Source Software: Crucial Packages and Hidden Heroes." The paper focuses on identifying crucial but often overlooked software dependencies in biomedical research. The discussions delve into how the study used data from two million papers to map these dependencies, revealing both well-supported and undermaintained software components vital to scientific research. There’s a conversation on th...
2024-06-0739 min
JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersEva Maxfield Brown on Speakerbox – Open Source Speaker Identification for Political Science#1: In the first episode of Open Source for Researchers, hosts Arfon and Abby sit down with Eva Maxfield Brown to discuss Speakerbox, an open source speaker identification tool.
Originally part of the Council Data Project, Speakerbox was used to train models to identify city council members speaking in transcripts, starting with cities like Seattle. Speakerbox can run on your laptop, making this a cost-effective solution for many civic hackers, citizen scientists, and now .. podcasters!
From the advantages of fine-tuning pre-trianed models for personalized speaker identification to the concept of few-shot learning, Eva walks us through...
2024-01-2521 min
Humans of TangoToward a culture of listening, with Heyni SoleraBandoneonist Heyni Solera shares how her immigration experience shaped her artistic journey and why she thinks the secret to better dancing is to sit down.
Producer/Host: Liz Sabatiuk | Music: "Flores Negras" by Francisco de Caro, arranged by Astor Piazzolla and performed by Heyni Solera | Image Credit: Nikos Zacharakis
Show Notes
Visit Heyni's website to listen to more of Heyni’s music and see what she’s up to.
Learn more about the DC Tango Orchestra.
Listen to Diego Schissi on Soundcloud, or watch videos of Diego Schissi Quinteto, Santiago Segret, and Eva Wo...
2022-05-0130 min