Early career researchers have an essential role to play in the move towards open research, says #SciData17 writing competition winner Sarah Lemprière.
Five things you can do today to make tomorrow’s research open
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How will open data advance scientific discovery?
SciData writing competition winner Sarah Lemprière explains how making the world’s deluge of data open will help science
As a global population we are generating more data than ever before. The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2020 over 80 million gigabytes of data will be produced every minute. Each second, the world will generate enough data for a 50-year-long Netflix binge. Scientific investigation is a big part of that: every day huge amounts of data are generated on everything from the behaviour of supernovae to the 3D structure of proteins in the brain. When the world’s largest radio telescope comes online in 2020, it alone will produce 180,000 gigabytes of data a minute.
Previously, most of this scientific data would never be made public — the need to produce a compelling story for a journal article means that many datasets showing ‘negative’ results will never be published.
