tedxuwmilwaukee: rethinking research data

“a scientific publication is not the scholarship itself, it is merely

advertising of the scholarship”

Buckheit, J. B., & Donoho, D. L. (1995). WaveLab and Reproducible Research. In Lecture Notes in Statistics Volume 103 (pp. 55–81). New York: Springer.

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Pics or it didn’t happen

Data or it didn’t happen

Mobley A, Linder SK, Braeuer R, Ellis LM, Zwelling L (2013) A Survey on Data Reproducibility in Cancer Research Provides Insights into Our Limited Ability to Translate Findings from the Laboratory to the Clinic. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63221. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063221

Reproducibility Issues

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/diederik-stapels-audacious-academic-fraud.html

http://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard/

Vines, T. H., Albert, A. Y. K., Andrew, R. L., Débarre, F., Bock, D. G., Franklin, M. T., … Rennison, D. J. (2014). The availability of research data declines rapidly with article age. Current Biology : CB, 24(1), 94–7. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.014

Article Data Code

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NASA & ESA. Public Domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny%27s_Voorwerp#/media/File:Hannys_voorwerp.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/4058808950/ Seattle Municipal Archives (CC BY)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/8360667/Millions-of-surgery-patients-at-risk-in-drug-research-fraud-scandal.html

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Image Credits1. "Carmen M. Reinhart - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011" by World Economic Forum from

Cologny, Switzerland - Carmen M. Reinhart - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carmen_M._Reinhart_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011.jpg#/media/File:Carmen_M._Reinhart_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011.jpg

2. "Kenneth Rogoff" by the International Monetary Fund - http://www.imf.org/external/photo/allphoto.asp?g=40. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenneth_Rogoff.jpg#/media/File:Kenneth_Rogoff.jpg

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