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A Short Essay on Reproducible Research

As everyone around here knows, I am a big fan of reproducible research and the idea of including data, code, and explanatory text in the same file. For researchers, that makes it easy for others to verify and extend the … Continue reading

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Reproducibility

I’ve written several times about the reroducibility crisis. That crisis is the fact that an astoundingly large percentage of scientific experiments can’t be reproduced by other researchers. That, of course, calls into question the validity of the original results. My … Continue reading

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Raw Data and Reproducible Research

I’ve often written that reproducible research is the best way to do science. Over at Molecular Brain, it’s editor, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, has a long and interesting editorial that argues that if you aren’t providing raw data, you aren’t doing science. … Continue reading

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Scimax and Reproducibility

The College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon has an interesting article on their Web site about John Kitchin and his work on Scimax. I’ve written about Scimax several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) so longtime Irreal readers … Continue reading

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Literate Programming with Org Mode

Justin Worthe had a nice addition to the articles on literate programming and Org mode. It is, I think, a pretty balanced treatment of the benefits and disadvantages of literate programming. On the one hand you have the usual advantages … Continue reading

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Reproducible Research for Management

The utility of reproducible research and literate programming methods in engineering and science is clear and well known by now but we seldom consider how the techniques might be extended to other disciplines. If, however, you think about what you’re … Continue reading

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Reproducibility Using GNU Guix

Regular readers know I’m fond of reproducible research and occasionally write about it. Unfortunately, I often write as if reproducible research is simply a matter of firing up Emacs and Org mode. It is, of course, a lot more complicated … Continue reading

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Reproducible Journalism?

Longtime readers know that we here at Irreal do not generally hold journalists in high regard. Putting the best light on things, they are all too often ignorant and lazy. Still, Irreal is nothing if not dedicated to the scientific … Continue reading

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Reproducible Research Webinar

Back in June I wrote about A Complete Example of Reproducible Research with Org. One of the authors of that paper was Arnaud Legrand who has an excellent webinar on reproducible research. Sadly, the video of the talk is in … Continue reading

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Data Sharing in Publications

John Kitchin has a really interesting article in ACS Catalysis on Effective Data Sharing in Scientific Publishing. In it, Kitchin discusses various strategies for embedding supporting data—such as tables and processing code—in a publication’s PDF or source file so that … Continue reading

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