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Last week, I attended PyCon in Portland. Two keynote speakers were from academia. Both speakers touched on challenges that scientific communities are having w

by Dowwie 9y ago

Last week, I attended PyCon in Portland. Two keynote speakers were from academia. Both speakers touched on challenges that scientific communities are having with regards to replication. One attempt to address this challenge is by using, and sharing as reference material, Jupyter notebooks (Python) used during research.

Bartweiss 9y ago
> and sharing as reference material I'm hugely in favor of this. Lots of replication-crisis stuff focuses on handling statistical issues like salami slicing. That's great, but it's a one-problem fix. Releasing more comprehensive information is a far, far bigger advance, which enables everything from catching data fraud to verifying statistical analysis. Reinhart and Rogoff, for instance, was afflicted with nontrivial formula errors in the analysis. A standard of releasing data and code with papers would have allowed this to be discovered in months rather than years.