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Data-sharing: Everything On Display : Naturejobs
Why scientists don't share their data
Open data-sharers are still in the minority in many fields. Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science — because other scientists might be able to make advances not foreseen by the data's producers — most are reluctant to…
He End Of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes The Scientific Method Obsolete
Correlation and causation
Scientists are trained to recognize that correlation is not causation, that no conclusions should be drawn simply on the basis of correlation between X and Y (it could just be a coincidence). Instead, you must understand the underlying mechanisms that connect the two. Once you…
Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications
Nanopublication support is not argumentative support
Nanopublications distill content as a graph of assertions associated with (a) provenance of the article or dataset from whence they came; and (b) a set of terms for indexing and filtering in order to identify auxiliary information in large data sets. Although this last point is…