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Questions tagged [data]

Questions concerning acquisition, handling, presentation, publication, and other practices related to use of data in academic research.

Please note that questions on the analysis of data are often more appropriate at CrossValidated.

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How to share a scientific dataset with the research community

Background: I am a PhD student and am one step away from graduating. I have created a dataset in 3D microscopy vision, particularly 3D surface reconstruction from scanning electron microscope images, and the work has been already published in a…
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Is it legal/ethical to use data grabbed from a Stack Exchange site in a paper?

For example, I download all the content of Academia@SE, later analysis it in a data mining paper, and submit the paper in the end. Is it OK to do so? Do I have to ask the permission from the administrator of the website? And does he or she have…
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Is there a standard format for sharing data?

We are writing a paper, and want to share the raw data. My advisor suggests that I share the data as an Excel file, but I believe that a plain text file (such as a text-delimited or comma-delimited file) would be better. Is there a standard format…
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How to make data management plans machine readable?

More and more research projects are now required to have a data management plan, sometimes already upon submission of the proposal, sometimes early into the then funded project. These plans lay out the kinds and amounts of data to be generated by…
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How should we approach the authors of a paper and ask them for their data?

Nowadays, many papers are based on data that can easily reach several Gigas. It is understandable that these data are not incorporated into the work, nor are hosted with the publisher. What is the more acceptable way of asking them to access this…
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Data exchange between academic institutions

Is there any publicly available statistics on the amount of exchange of data that transit through Internet between academic institutions? (e.g. X TB yearly from institution A to institution B)
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How do I report a ratio?

I want to report a ratio in my thesis. The ratio is 16:84, but I also want tot report which number represents which class. Can I report that like this: The data was not evenly distributed with a ratio of 16:84 (CN:AD). Or should I put the CN:AD…
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Revoked access to data within same institute after moving section

Recently I moved sections within the same institute. All access to data owned by the university has been revoked from me, with an explanation that it contains personal information. Yet, none of this data is tagged personally, due to new data…
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Sorting Data in Tables

Am I allowed to sort data in tables? Say in my notebook, I recorded the following: Distance (cm) Time (s) ± 0.01 cm ± 0.02 s 100.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 10.00 1.00 50.00 5.00 25.00 …
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Experiment by using a Matlab's demo data set and publish to journal/conference

I hope my question is within the topic of this forum. I would like to test an algorithm to a real application data and publish in a journal/conference. However, I cannot acquired my own data set myself and I am thinking to use one of Matlab's demos…
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Data vs Metadata

I am having a discussion with a colleague to define the metadata for data management protocol. The problem is that I cannot define the difference between data and metadata. For example, if I take the measurement of the size of a seagrass plant in a…
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How can I gain access to a database to which my university does not have access

I'm a PhD-student in economics and I'm planning a scientific paper on a certain topic. For this purpose I need access to data from an economic database. There exist several companies, which provide the desired datasets in their databases. But the…
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How to become a Data Scienctist

I have done part time MBA in SAP (SD & MM Module). I am very good in MS Excel (Certified MCAS from Microsoft) and Data Analysis. I have around 15 years of working experience in MIS & Dashboard. I have basic knowledge of programming but not an…
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Unpublished data exchange

While doing anthropological fieldwork I shared some films on a hard disk with an international research scholar in the same field it also had my unpublished data and chapters in progress. While her research objectives are different there are…
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