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2012-05-12 :: Thomas // Methods
Audio-Transcription with Ubuntu

I learned a few days ago that the transcription tool f4 from a german development team based at Marburg, turned from freeware to shareware. The fees are fair and manageable even with a student’s budget but they decided to discontinue the support for linux. There is one alternative to be taken into serious consideration: transcribe. [...]

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2012-02-22 :: Thomas // Methods + Misc
Doing research is believing

Well, first and foremost, you need to believe in your field of research. I mean, that’s really the main point: doing something that you find to be very fascinating and pursue it with emphasis. To do this on a constant level over a certain time period, you have to believe in the worth of your [...]

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To some respect I know what I want to do with my master’s thesis – to some respect. This organized confusion has condensed in a quite explorative collecting of twitter data. The goal was to collect every tweet mentioning the term open data, or in twitter terms: #opendata. How do you do this? First step: [...]

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