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In Defense of Extreme Openness
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Jake VanderPlas
March 22, 2016
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Transcript
In Defense of Extreme Openness Jake VanderPlas Python In Astronomy
2016
I think we all see the benefit of coding in
the open . . . Eases Collaboration — Eases Sharing Heightens Visibility — Encourages Reproducibility Encourages Extensibility — Encourages Integrity etc. — etc.
. . . why not do all research in the
open? Eases Collaboration — Eases Sharing Heightens Visibility — Encourages Reproducibility Encourages Extensibility — Encourages Integrity etc. — etc.
A case study from yours truly . . .
https://github.com/jakevdp/multiband_LS/ We wrote this paper on GitHub from day 1
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gh-publisher Each new commit triggers a Travis CI process which
builds the current paper PDF and pushes it to this website. . . https://github.com/ewanmellor/gh-publisher/
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Jeff Scargle!!! — as in “Lomb-Scargle Periodogram”!!!!!!!
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“But I might get scooped!”
. . . putting work on Github is publication!
. . . putting work on Github is publication! “Scooping”
→ “Plagiarism”
“But Jake. . . would you do this if there
were any real competition?”
Three very similar papers all published within a few months
last summer . . .
So. . . how did it turn out?
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(* not that I’m keeping track . . .)
Be Open. Thank You.