Making empirical data+code available

2012-02-16 Thread Derek M Jones
All, Continuing on the theme of empirical research. There is a growing trend for researchers to make their experimental data available. Promise is probably one of the more well known sites: http://promisedata.org/ What is also needed is the code used to analyze it. I have been having a hard

Re: Making empirical data code available

2012-02-16 Thread Derek M Jones
Lindsay, A couple of researchers I have contacted to obtain data told me that they have either lost it or did not make an effort to keep it. Having someplace that people could automatically upload their data to might help preserve more of it, as well as making life easier for other by cutting

Re: Making empirical data+code available

2012-02-16 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On 17/02/2012, at 2:53 AM, Derek M Jones wrote: You can find mine here (only the 2011 experiment has all the code needed to perform the analysis; I'm working on fixing that): http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment.html This is a wonderful thing you have done. I note that these days, when I

Re: Making empirical data+code available

2012-02-16 Thread Derek M Jones
Richard, There's the corresp() function in library(MASS) and Fionn Murtagh's code to go with his correspondence analysis book is available over the web. This is very common practice with R books. While playing with the data, I was struck by two prominent lines I kept seeing: