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I've recently made the argument that science publications should include code and data. See comment history e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11606278 h
by jcrites 10y ago
I've recently made the argument that science publications should include code and data. See comment history e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11606278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11606278
Glad to see that concrete good is coming from such efforts:
> The researchers took advantage of a recent trend toward making data open for anyone to use or analyze. They were able to download hundreds of fMRI scans used in other studies to perform their analysis.
The more data and code that's made openly available, the stronger science will be. I hope that we can work toward a future where most if not all code and data are expected socially and by funding policies to be included in the publication process.
- ThePhysicist 10y agoAgree 100 %. The data of publicly funded studies should be available online so that people can run their own analyses on it. There could be a non-disclosure period of course to give the scientists that have done the original work an advantage when publishing their results. I'm confident that we will see cloud-based systems for scientific data analysis in the near future though, especially for data which is uniform and for which good standards exists. For some areas like genomics we already see this, and I'm sure others will follow suit. I also predict that being able to try out analysis algorithms on peta- or exabyte datasets will be a huge game changer for many areas of science, and will invalidate many current findings that are based on smaller datasets, while hopefully producing many new ones as well.
- thaw13579 10y agoI think scientists already support that for the most part, but there are lots of barriers, e.g. cost of maintaining the data, privacy concerns, intellectual property, competition, etc.