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Open data, flawed data, and science
Peter Murray-Rust, Data-driven science and repositories: consideration of errors, petermr’s blog, June 24, 2008.
... As we have blogged earlier (CrystalEye - an example of a data repository) CrystalEye was developed by Nick Day as part of his PhD work. The primary aim is to see if large amounts of data - larger than a human can inspect - can be reliably used for scientific work. Before describing this I shall briefly review “errors” and indicate the implications for data repositories. |