Thesis
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-09-19
Summary:
But wait… if that’s not exciting enough, I also wanted to go a bit further than just releasing my thesis – I am also going to release all the data that is associated with the work. I am a firm believer in open data access in papers, thesis and books and I am very pleased that my sponsoring company has agreed to let me release large amounts of the data used to generate my thesis, for anyone to look at or use. I am not perfect and didn’t have time to run every type of analysis possible on my data. By releasing it I not only allow others to challenge my interpretations, but I hope that just maybe, someone else might discover something new from my work that I’ve missed. I’ve hosted the data on figsharewhich is a fantastic place to keep things like this and lets people comment and reference publicly available data. The link below will take you to a repository of each set of data so you don’t need to download the whole set just to look at the numbers behind one graph. Click the link below to go to the directory. Obviously, I haven’t shared every set of data collected from my PhD – for a start that would be a 15GB download but also, much of it is not written in my thesis and copying all the associated meta-data from my lab book would be a fairly epic task. As I’ve moved to an electronic lab-book now, hopefully this won’t be a problem next time I want to share a huge trove of data. In addition to the data, I also realise that it’s pretty important to share any calculation and modelling tools I used. Figshare is currently better for sharing data than code so I’ve elected to put any calculation code up on GitHub. GitHub is great for both sharing code with others but also allowing people to suggest changes and modifications that might improve the code ..."