Bookmarked Websites

  1. Udemy has many courses related to data science, machine learning and programming. Many of the courses are also approved by SkillsFuture Singapore.
  2. Loop (Frontiers) is a research network that is open to be integrated into any publisher’s or academic organization’s website. It can also collate a list of publications by a researcher automatically, similar to Google Scholar or ResearchGate.
    Frontiers Loop Profile Page
  3. Kaggle is very useful for finding datasets. Kaggle also provides (limited) free access to GPUs, which is helpful for deep learning.
    Kaggle Profile Page
  4. ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. One advantage is that sometimes authors upload their preprint PDFs onto ResearchGate, which can be viewed for free.
    ResearchGate Profile Page
  5. ScholarBank@NUS is the institutional repository of the National University of Singapore. It stores the scholarly output of NUS, including students’ academic theses.
    ScholarBank Profile Page
  6. GitHub is a popular code hosting platform for version control and collaboration.
    GitHub Profile Page
  7. NUSMods is a very useful website for NUS students to plan their academic timetable, for lectures, tutorials and exams.
    An example is this MA1513 Linear Algebra Timetable for a module that I previously helped to teach.
  8. Math Genealogy is a website that traces a mathematician’s academic genealogy, meaning the PhD supervisor of one’s PhD supervisor, and so on, all the way back to the earliest history.
    Math Genealogy Profile Page
  9. Publons is a unique website that provides a free service for academics to track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals. It is owned by Clarivate Analytics (which also owns Web of Science, EndNote, and ScholarOne).
    Publons Profile Page
  10. Microsoft Academic is a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. In terms of functionality, it is similar to Google Scholar.
    Microsoft Academic Profile Page
  11. Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database covering various publishers and peer-reviewed journals.
    Scopus Profile Page
  12. Google Sites is a free web page-creation tool offered by Google.
    Google Sites Page

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