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Open data should be the rule everywhere. The internet was created to share academic and scientific data. I dream of a world where, if you make a scientific cla

• matthjensen 10y ago
  I agree. In the case of fast moving policy debates, open analytical code is also important. There are also situations when government agencies like the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and many many others use private data sources like tax return data. In these cases, I think they should be required to release the analytical source code as well as data dictionaries that allow others to create dummy or synthesic data. They should also release detailed summary statistics when possible-- after taking differential privacy concerns into account.
• nl 10y ago
  This isn't the same thing at all. Open Data is great! But the OP is talking about open-source models, so one can understand the assumptions that it makes. In many cases this is much, much more important than the data itself. For example, economic models usually rely on assumptions about changes to growth rates/interest rate/unemployment rates etc etc. These aren't really data - they may be based on data, and projected forward based on various assumptions. Often these assumptions are reasonable, but occasionally they are completely absurd.