Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat...
by erichocean on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:10AM
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Open source the code and supporting data.
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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat...
by yakult on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:20AM
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It's not that simple. What if some of it is proprietary? What if I'm not allowed to submit code because I need to be anonymous so reviewers can maintain impartiality? What happens when one of the upstreams update and breaks my code? Do I need to keep it updated? Forever?
Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat...
by adrianN on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:58AM
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At my institute at least, scientists are required to maintain everything that is necessary to reproduce a result for at least ten years. That includes all the data and the software used to produce the results. It's not an easy job, but it's important.
Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat...
by yakult on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:13AM
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If your institute also mandates they make the data/software publicly available, then that's definitely the exception rather than rule. Also must be hideously expensive.
It almost never happens that a paper I read actually comes with usable source code.