I'm late to the party (summer of holidays), but here's an oldie from xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1205/
I certainly agree that quantifying the time saved is important. Putting numbers to it is difficult, though. I'm working on a rural digital economy project, and we're trying to quantify how access to better skills/infrastructure would save businesses money. Short of installing activity loggers on folks computers, a user guesstimate seems to be the only way! On 24 May 2017 at 18:35, Ben Marwick <[email protected]> wrote: > I love this wonderful paper and interview, and the OHI is a great > inspiration for me, I recommend it to everyone. > > We now seem to have an emerging genre of scholarly papers spanning a > variety of disciplines that describe this way of working. I think this is > great, a big win for the influence of the ideals and practices of SWC, and > an important step towards improving research reproducibility and openness. > > I would like to propose we raise the bar a bit for future papers in this > genre, especially about claims of 'less time' and 'saving time'. So far as > I'm aware, most of these claims are qualitative, and not based on objective > measurements of time. A challenge for future papers in this genre is to > include some measurements of how much time is saved. > > I believe that these claims of saved time are probably true, but I'd love > to have something more robust to show my skeptical students and colleagues, > who often ask me about this (and don't find reproducibility to be > sufficient motivation). Wouldn't it be great to see some actual numbers on > how much time is saved using reproducible workflows and open source tools? > > Are there any compelling studies already published on this? > > BM > > On 24/05/2017 7:56 AM, Julia Stewart Lowndes wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I wanted to share our Perspective article that was published yesterday >> in /Nature Ecology & Evolution. /My experience as a learner and >> instructor with Software Carpentry definitely played a role in writing >> this paper, and we cite the Carpentries throughout the >> article. /Nature /also did a Q&A with me that gives a quick overview of >> the paper. >> >> Lowndes JSS, Best BD, Scarborough C, Afflerbach JC, Frazier MR, >> O’Hara CC, Jiang N, Halpern BS (2017). Our path to better science in >> less time using open data science tools. /Nature Ecology & >> Evolution/, 1 Article number: >> 0160. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0160 >> <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0160> >> >> <http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/05/23/techblog- >> julia-stewart-lowndes>Perkel, >> J. 2017. TechBlog: My digital toolbox: Julia Stewart >> Lowndes, /Nature./ http://blogs.nature.com/nature >> jobs/2017/05/23/techblog-julia-stewart-lowndes >> <http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/05/23/techblog- >> julia-stewart-lowndes> >> >> >> We’ve also made a website using the tools that we describe in the >> paper: ohi-science.org/betterscienceinlesstime >> <http://ohi-science.org/betterscienceinlesstime>. We have resources >> there and I’ll keep a list of any media attention, including a Q&A I did >> with /Nature/ that should be coming out later today. >> >> >> We are also tweeting about it from @ohiscience >> <https://twitter.com/OHIscience> and @juliesquid >> <https://twitter.com/juliesquid>. >> >> Cheers, >> Julie et al. >> >> >> *Abstract: * >> >> Reproducibility has long been a tenet of science but has been >> challenging to achieve—we learned this the hard way when our old >> approaches proved inadequate to efficiently reproduce our own work. >> Here we describe how several free software tools have fundamentally >> upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire >> workflow more transparent and streamlined. By describing specific >> tools and how we incrementally began using them for the Ocean Health >> Index project, we hope to encourage others in the scientific >> community to do the same—so we can all produce better science in >> less time. >> >> >> -- >> >> Julia Stewart Lowndes, PhD >> Ocean Health Index >> National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) >> University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) >> website <http://jules32.github.io/> • ohi-science >> <http://ohi-science.org/>• github <https://github.com/jules32> • twitter >> <https://twitter.com/juliesquid> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss -- Website: http://mikerspencer.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerspencer Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeRSpencer
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