Repeat after me: Is our research reproducible (enough)?

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Lex NederbragtResearch Fellow at University of Oslo
Repeat after me:
Is our research reproducible (enough)?
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What is ‘Reproducible research’?
“Reproducibility is the ability of an entire
experiment or study to be reproduced

either by the researcher or by someone else
working independently.
It is one of the main principles of the scientific
method.”

Wikipedia
Reproducibility: why?
The worst case

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6056/579.full.pdf
A reproducibility crisis?

Retraction rates are on the rise Murat Cokol, Fatih Ozbay & Raul Rodriguez-Esteban
EMBO reports (2008) 9, 2 doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7401143
Does this affect us?
An example from our own work

2011
An example from our own work

Are all these figures/tables reproducible?

Supplementary information, page 19-63 of 72
An exercise in reproducibility
Master student project at informatics Sabba Ifzal
Solutions

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Levels of reproducibility

Loose descriptions
that are very
incomplete, no
data/materials

All
data, protocols, code
etc
Levels of reproducibility
Minimum effort needed to
reproduce meaningfully
Loose descriptions
that are very
incomplete, no
data/materials

All
data, protocols, code
etc
Reproducibility and reusability

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Recycle.jpg
How to make your research reproducible
Document your work
How to make your research reproducible

http://howdoitradestocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/share-ideas1.jpg
How to make your research reproducible

https://twitter.com/vsbuffalo/statuses/377651287133003776
How to make your research reproducible

https://github.com/lexnederbragt
How to make your research reproducible
Version control

https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows
How to make your research reproducible
How to make your research reproducible

http://software-carpentry.org
https://twitter.com/ctitusbrown/status/383730337811296256
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