The Second Apocalypse
Miscellaneous Chatter => Philosophy & Science => Topic started by: sciborg2 on June 29, 2014, 06:06:18 pm
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https://www.coursera.org/course/repdata
From a mailing list:
Johns Hopkins is having a free web class on reproducable research techniques in a few days; after looking at the tools involved I thought it might be of some interest to people here.
Essentially there are a few people in acadamia whom are pushing for reports to be written in such a way that you can just easily grab the paper and verify the statistics using automated tools. So for instance if you wanted to check how someone achieved a given effect size, you simply grab the source file for the journal paper and it will spit out the R code used to calculate that data. This might pull the actual test statistics from a web server to a local file, and you could prod at it to your heart's content.
I think this is a great idea for all of the sciences, personally.