The Open Science Framework (OSF) was launched in 2012 and almost overnight became the leading platform for the preservation and sharing of scientific data, materials, and analysis code. It made it far easier to endorse open science by making it easier to practice open science. Unfortunately, some of that is coming to an end. In…
Category: Credibility Lab
[130] ResearchBox: Even Easier to Use and More Transparently Permanent than Before
Over the past 10 years or so, posting data, code, and materials for published papers has gone from eccentric to mundane. There are a few platforms that enable sharing research files, including ResearchBox. ResearchBox is hosted by the Wharton Credibility Lab, which I co-direct. We also host the pre-registration platform AsPredicted, and a new platform…
[100] Groundhog 2.0: Further addressing the threat R poses to reproducible research
About a year ago I wrote Colada[95], a post on the threat R poses to reproducible research. The core issue is the ‘packages’. When using R, you can run library(some_package) and R can all of a sudden scrape a website, cluster standard errors, maybe even help you levitate. The problem is that packages get updated…
[95] Groundhog: Addressing The Threat That R Poses To Reproducible Research
R, the free and open source program for statistical computing, poses a substantial threat to the reproducibility of published research. This post explains the problem and introduces a solution. The Problem: Packages R itself has some reproducibility problems (see example in this footnote [1]), but the big problem is its packages: the addon scripts that…