Relevant and mentioned links:

• Saul’s xd archive, grid comparison, and .xd file format
• FiveThirtyEight’s coverage of the plagiarism scandal Saul’s analysis unearthed and Saul’s csv,conf talk, “How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal”
• George’s dataset of cryptic crossword clues
• George’s datasheet for the dataset
• Timnit Gebru et al.’s “Datasheets for Datasets”
• XWord Info, from which Saul gathered New York Times crossword data
• David Steinberg’s Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, with “litzing” contributions from Barry Haldiman and others

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• Canadian Wildland Fire Information System
  • The agency’s datamart
  • Fire hotspot maps
  • Fire weather maps
  • Fire Weather Index System
• Historical data from the Canadian National Fire Database
• WildFireSat: Enhancing Canada's ability to manage wildfires

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Relevant and mentioned links:

• Missing Migrants Project
• The team
• MMP’s data landing page
• MMP’s data downloads
• MMP’s methodology
• MMP’s other publications
• Stories of families of missing migrants
• The 2013 Lampedusa shipwrecks
• The Human Rights Watch report mentioned, on violence against Ethiopian migrants at the Yemen-Saudi border

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Relevant and mentioned links:

• The project's landing page
• The project’s downloadable data
• The project’s data visualization tool
• An introduction to the statistics
• Articles with findings from the team’s research:
  • “The prosperity of high-earning foreign-born workers”
  • “The geographic divide in Native incomes and earnings”
  • “Inclusive recessions, inclusive recoveries?”
• Federal Statistical Research Data Centers 

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Relevant and mentioned links:

• Jan and Amber’s pockets-investigation at The Pudding
• Data on all the measurements they took
• Their data collection sheet

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• Weigh-off results from BigPumpkins.com
• Great Pumpkin Commonwealth
• Andy’s website, where you can buy his giant pumpkins 
• Andy’s “Pumpkins 101” presentation
• “Little Valley man’s giant pumpkin is North American Champion,” an article about Andy’s top pumpkin in 2021 
• The family tree for Andy’s latest giant pumpkin
• A history of giant pumpkin growing, from the Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Growers

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• The London Stage Database
• “Recovering the London Stage Information Bank: Lessons from an Early Humanities Computing Project,” in which Mattie describes the data’s history in more detail
• “From Manual to Digital: Women's Hands and the Work of Eighteenth-Century Studies,” Mattie’s article about the outsourcing of the Information Bank’s digital transcription effort
• The London Stage Information Bank’s data and other files, as uploaded by Mattie and Brianna Marshall, including scanned images of the code (as found in Will Daland’s attic)
• Scans of “The London Stage, 1660-1800” reference books hosted by Hathi Trust
• Scan of “Index to the The London Stage, 1660-1800”, also hosted by Hathi Trust
• The 1971 article in “Computers and the Humanities” about the London Stage Information Bank
• Lawrence University’s Institute for Paper Chemistry, home to the mainframe used by London Stage Information Bank
• Data visualizations using the London Stage Database, in response to Nightingale x Data Is Plural data data visualization challenge

Mattie sends a special thanks to the University of Oregon’s Cameron Seright, who fixed some late-breaking website bugs just in time for this podcast release.

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• “Geography of roadkills within the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot: Poorly known vertebrates are part of the toll,” Pablo’s 2021 paper with Santiago Espinosa, and its accompanying dataset.
• “Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals,” a 2022 paper by Pablo and co-authors examining data from 85 roadkill surveys.
• Red Ecuatoriana para el Monitoreo de Fauna Atropellada, Pablo’s citizen science project project, collecting roadkill data in Ecuador.
• Uku Pacha Ground Snake (Atractus Ukupacha) and Klebba's Snail-Eater (Dipsas klebbai), two previously-undescribed snake species found in Pablo and Santiago’s research.
• “Roadkill provide a novel way to sample an area’s animals,” an article in the Economist (behind paywall) discussing Pablo and Santiago’s work.

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• NCBI’s Pathogen Detection database
• ProPublica’s investigation
• Irena’s behind-the-scenes explanatory article
• A tool developed by ProPublica to help you when shopping for poultry
• Wikipedia’s entry on next-generation DNA sequencing, also known as “massive parallel sequencing”
• A definition of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), from the National Library of Medicine

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• atariemailarchive.org
• Specific threads:
  • On CC’ing
  • On building a spellchecker
  • On royalties
  • Jed venting about inventory data
• Vikram’s structured dataset of the emails
• Vikram’s blog post describing how he built the site
• “My Vax Mail, Memos, and Status Reports from Atari/Atari Games 1982-1992,” the page on Jed Margolin’s website containing the raw mail files
• The 2012 Kotaku post that caught Vikram’s attention
• A picture of a VAX mainframe

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