Experiments fail to be reproduced, research data from others is hard to come by, and steps between data and figure are described as ‘here, a miracle happens’.

Speakers at the Publishing Better Science through Better Data (#scidata16) conference addressed these issues and more.

Publishing Better Science through Better Data journalism competition winner Réka Nagy.

Most research happens behind closed doors, and the results can only be gleaned once they’ve been published. The raw data that lead to results, however, are rarely made public, and the steps taken to get from data to figures in a publication is not always clear, which has led to the reproducibility crisis currently facing research. It’s clear that something needs to be done to address this, and the ever-inventive collective mind of science is finding inventive solutions.

The steps taken to get from data to figures in a publication is not always clear {credit}SlvrKy/Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-4.0 {/credit}

Continue reading →