Re: [Wiki-research-l] Spreadsheet autoformatting errors, MRIs, and more reasons for open research

2016-08-29 Thread Jan Dittrich
I found the first one (Excel errors) very interesting, in particular, because much of the coverage highlighted that a spreadsheet application is the wrong tool and that researchers should ditch it in favor of R or Python. This makes sense. However, it is rarely as easy as that much repeated sente

[Wiki-research-l] Spreadsheet autoformatting errors, MRIs, and more reasons for open research

2016-08-28 Thread Pine W
Two articles of potential interest to medical and Wikimedia researchers: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/sunday/do-you-believe-in-god-or-is-that-a-software-glitch.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-of-scientific-papers-contain-excel-errors/