Category: data availability
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Public documents/data on the internet sometimes disappears
People are often surprised when I tell them that documents/data regularly disappears from the internet. By disappear I mean: no links to websites hosting the data are returned by popular search engines, nothing on the Wayback Machine (including archive.org, which now has a Scholar page), and nothing on LLM suggested locations. There is the drip-drip-drip…
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A new NASA software dataset from the 1970s
When modeling the process of software development, to optimise the creation of new projects, the best measurement data to use are those relating to whatever developers are doing today. Unfortunately, measurement data for software engineering processes is very hard to find; few development groups record anything about what they do, and even when they do…