18: Data sharing

Withholding data: bad science or scientific misconduct?

Some of the topics discussed:

• Dan raises privacy issues surrounding sharing data
• What are the limits of AI to identify people from 'un-identifiable' data?
• The new age of sharing data
• What grinds Dan's gears
• Requesting data from people who said that they'd actually share their data
• James' experiences with requesting data
• Dan offers a solution for accessing data via an independent 3rd party
• When is a data request 'vexatious'?
• Hiding data vs. just being lazy with data management
• The importance of sharing your analysis code along with the data
• Version controlling manuscripts
• How much will open data actually improve science?
• 'Fake' journals masquerading as real ones
• Australia's windfarm commissioner (a real thing, unfortunalty)
• Australian coffee vs. the rest of the world
  
• Our Twitter followers numbers have surpassed our Facebook fans!

Links

• The paper on requesting data

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22686633

• The blog post on whether withholding your data is scientific misconduct

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/07/03/data-secrecy-bad-science-or-scientific-misconduct/

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