Category Archives: Software

My Symposium at the AAAS Annual Meeting: The Digitization of Science

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

Yesterday I held a symposium at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington DC, called “The Digitization of Science: Reproducibility and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer,” that was intended to bring attention to how massive computation is changing the practice of science, particularly … Continue reading →

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Letter Re Software and Scientific Publications – Nature

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

Mark Gerstein and I penned a reaction to two pieces published in Nature News last October, “Publish your computer code: it is good enough,” by Nick Barnes and “Computational Science…. Error” by Zeeya Merali. Nature declined to publish our note … Continue reading →

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Startups Awash in Data: Quantitative Thinkers Needed

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Victoria Stodden

We know unix logs everything, which makes web-based data collection easy, in fact almost difficult not to do. As a result internet startups often find themselves gathering enormous amounts of data, for example site use patterns, click-streams, user demographics and … Continue reading →

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Open Data Dead on Arrival

Posted on February 3, 2010 by vcs

In 1984 Karl Popper wrote a private letter to an inquirer he didn’t know, responding to enclosed interview questions. The response was subsequently published and in it he wrote, among other things, that: “Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. … Continue reading →

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Ars technica article on reproducibility in science

Posted on January 26, 2010 by vcs

John Timmer wrote an excellent article called “Keeping computers from ending science’s reproducibility.” I’m quoted in it. Here’s an excellent follow up blog post by Grant Jacobs, “Reproducible Research and computational biology.”

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Code Repository for Machine Learning: mloss.org

Posted on January 26, 2010 by vcs

The folks at mloss.org — Machine Leaning Open Source Software — invited a blog post on my roundtable on data and code sharing, held at Yale Law School last November. mloss.org’s philosophy is stated as: “Open source tools have recently … Continue reading →

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Post 2: The OSTP’s call for comments regarding Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government

Posted on December 28, 2009 by vcs

The following comments were posted in response to the second wave of the OSTP’s call as posted here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here and on the OSTP site here (scroll to the second last comment), asked for feedback … Continue reading →

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The Climate Modeling Leak: Code and Data Generating Published Results Must be Open and Facilitate Reproducibility

Posted on November 30, 2009 by vcs

On November 20 documents including email and code spanning more than a decade were leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University in the UK. The Leak Reveals a Failure of Reproducibility of Computational Results It appears … Continue reading →

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Software and Intellectual Lock-in in Science

Posted on November 14, 2009 by vcs

In a recent discussion with a friend, a hypothesis occurred to me: that increased levels of computation in scientific research could cause greater intellectual lock-in to particular ideas. Examining how ideas change in scientific thinking isn’t new. Thomas Kuhn for … Continue reading →

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