I'm (1) also a procrastinating hypocrite, (2) a double agent working for Real Neuro and the RNN Tie Club (3) part of a Data Liberation Front sleeper cell ... but I think there's good reason the term #bropenscience gets used by tweeps like @o_guest @IrisVanRooij @twitemp1 et al.
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Replying to @nicholdav @ianholmes and
I have no idea what's going on here 100%, but I'm a data parasite and thus always have used other people's data and I have never demanded they change the format to help me unless they came to me for help (even in those cases I did most of the work anyway).
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Replying to @o_guest @nicholdav and
Demanding people change the format of their data unless it's like encrypted or obfuscated on purpose to stop you using it (if so, they would not make it open, easier to keep it "safe"/private) is a weird flex.
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Replying to @o_guest @nicholdav and
If somebody made their data open what's their motive for changing the format just to spite you? They didn't, they just made it open in the format they used, which is how it should be, right?
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Replying to @o_guest @nicholdav and
You can ask them to change but why demand it like they should change file types/formats for you? Surely that's a tiny easy thing to do and since it's for you purpose you would know how to do it better than them anyway?
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Replying to @o_guest @nicholdav and
Unless I am missing something, which is very possible, what is a case in which it's OK to demand (not kindly ask but demand!) a change in formats as if the data collector has made a huge error?
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Replying to @o_guest @nicholdav and
But that is a completely different matter. I think it should suffice that the data is properly labelled, designs identified, and operations declared. My view.
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Replying to @twitemp1 @nicholdav and
Yes, there should always be meta data. Are we talking about meta data or data formats? Different things.
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*metadata
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Documentation and metadata are really important, although demands should be phrased kindly and probably dialed back to questions since it's always possible the information is somewhere not yet found by the more data parasitic person.
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This is something a peer reviewer should be catching anyway, so I would question how recent datasets like this (w/o metadata/docs) get past PR. More focus on training PhD students & postdocs to review open science is needed and journals should explain how to catch such omissions!
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