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Welcome to the world of science.... where the data is scant but the results are impressive! Seriously though, publish your data in the supplementary materials.
by j_m_b 9y ago
Welcome to the world of science.... where the data is scant but the results are impressive!
Seriously though, publish your data in the supplementary materials. Quit being afraid of failure or someone catching your mistakes. This is science, not figure skating.
- epistasis 9y agoI would encourage going one step further, and finding a repository for the data outside of the journal. Journals can be terrible at keeping supplementary files around, and I have people email asking for the supplementary data after a website redesign, or similar. Journals also sometimes do weird things like convert moderate size tables to PDF (making them nearly useless), and it's not clear what's happening when you're submitting the article always. The other advantage of a repository is that it gets included in large data collections, and is in a standardized format. Often it's a lot of work to upload to repositories, nearly as much as the analysis (if you have a good analysis pipeline), but is well worth it both for oneself and for the community.