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18 articles · Latest March 18, 2026

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 18, 2026

Give Me Data, Yesterday

I want this data, and I want it yesterday!This post is adapted, with the author’s permission and collaboration, from this post in his personal blog. This is a quest. A quest for t...

Bart Schilperoort·Mar 12, 2025

Sharing MATLAB models with everyone

MATLAB is still commonly used in many scientific fields, despite its closed-source nature. While many (technical) universities used to teach coding using MATLAB, more and more are...

Olga Lyashevska·Jan 23, 2025

How to run a containerized Agent-Based Model on HPC

This blog was written by Faruk Diblen and Olga Lyashevska. Imagine you are preparing Torta Caprese for your friend’s birthday. You have a recipe that consistently delights everyone...

Lourens Veen·Nov 27, 2024

Is scientific software the new land grab?

3 Scientific software platforms are not always as open as they look at first sight. Avoid getting locked in with this advice! “Do you know what CodeOcean is? Should I do this?” As...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 14, 2024

Why should you care about reproducible code — and how to get started?

On 23 April 2024, the first ‘National Research Software Day’ took place in Hilversum, the Netherlands. During the unconference part of the program, Eduard Klapwijk ran the session...

Lourens Veen·Aug 1, 2024

Scripting vs. Programming

Lourens Veen·Apr 26, 2023 Any remaining differences are usually due to particular features supported by certain languages. In R for example, you can write down a statistical model...

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Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Oct 26, 2023

Open Science Festival: What infrastructures do we need to preserve research software?

written by Luisa Orozco, Daniela Gawehns, and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz Introduction Earlier this year, the 2023 edition of the Dutch Open Science Festival was held. We (the eScience C...

Patrick Bos·Apr 6, 2023

Ditching Docker Hub: serve research software with GHCR + Zenodo

Or pay the price… that Docker Hub may charge you Scrooge McDuck who throws a Docker container in the trash in the style of Disney… according to Stable Diffusion. As a researcher, a...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 11, 2022

How to find your rubber duck: Using machine learning to understand a changing sea

To get a quick start, they applied for the eScience Center Small-Scale Initiative (SSI), and were awarded consultancy on their project titled “Machine Learning for the complex resp...

Gijs van den Oord·Dec 14, 2021

The new IPCC assessment report: stakes have been raised

In PRIMAVERA, a Horizon 2020 project, we focused upon the I/O machinery in a big European climate model EC-Earth. In particular, we were asked to come up with a solution to make th...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 21, 2021

Pandemic-proof: shaping the future of scientific exchange

The 2021 (virtual) meeting of the European Meteorological Society started off with the collaborative Future Science Cafe. Inspired by the rapid developments in remote collaboration...

Florian Huber·Nov 10, 2020

Being a minority in fancy coding land: a Windows user.

How I slowly went from my imposter-syndrome hiding to accepting what I am. A Windows user, at least most of the time. (Don’t worry, this is NOT one of those Linux vs. Windows posts...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 27, 2020

C++ web app with WebAssembly, Vega, Web Worker and React

To generate the Vega-Lite specification we can write a function like so To wrap the Vega-Lite visualization in React component we will use useRef to get a DOM element as container...

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eScience Editorial Team·Oct 9, 2020

Interact with your C++ web app using React forms

By Stefan Verhoeven, Faruk Diblen, Jurriaan H. Spaaks, Adam Belloum, and Christiaan Meijer. In a previous blog post, we compiled the C++ algorithm into WebAssembly. In the current...

Hanno Spreeuw·Oct 21, 2019

eScience trends from ADASS 2019

The 2019 Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems (ADASS, 353 participants) took place in Groningen between 6 and 10 October, 2019. The aim of this annual conf...

Ronald van Haren·Feb 5, 2019

fairifying ewatercycle

Towards reproducible science and better flooding forecasts Growing populations, economies, industries and urbanization are increasing the demand for water, while extreme weather sp...

Jurriaan H. Spaaks·Dec 20, 2018

portable hpc workflows with snakemake and xenon

Migrate your scientific workflows to different remote machines in minutes instead of days Image courtesy of WallpaperUP Scientific workflows are often coupled to the computer syste...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 29, 2018

nice hydrographs for everyone from everyone

“Nice hydrographs! Can you now compare your model to ‘that other hydrology groups model’?” The phd student suppresses the urge to roll her eyes. Her supervisor is asking her to go...