Figshare is an open data repository that allows researchers to publish all of their research data online for public access within minutes. This speeds up the publishing process compared to traditional journals, which can take years and only share a small portion of the data. Figshare aims to improve collaboration and reproducibility of research by making all data citable and discoverable. It has over 1.5 million public research articles and is used by many universities worldwide to help students and researchers more easily access and share data.

2. figshare.com
open science
data repository
over 1.5 million public articles

3. Science knows no country,
because knowledge belongs
to humanity,and is the torch
which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur

4. Research sharing
(publishing) in 2014?
more or less the same
as in the in 1980s...

5. ● write the paper for your research data
● pay money to submit the paper to a journal
● go through 6 months - 2 years of peer
reviews and numerous rewrites
● the published article will usually contain
less than 10% of the research data

6. Sturgeon's law?

7. 90% of
everything
is crap
Sturgeon's law
90%
10%

8. Can you see the
problem here?
● it takes close to one year to publish
● you share less than 10% of the data
● in the future there’s a ~90% chance
it will prove to be wrong…

9. You can’t publish
negative data
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways
that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

10. figshare is
at the forefront
of a new movement
in the world of scientific
data publishing

11. ● upload ALL your research data
● public within minutes
● unique identifier in the science world (DOI)
● the research data is citable
● your research is out there (discoverable)
● you get credit for your research

12. By publishing on figshare
all your data, you will:
● speed up the publishing process
● increase the amount of data
that’s being shared
● improve collaboration
● get to the 10% that matters faster,
and focus on that

13. Publishers
Nature
PLOS
Taylor & Francis
F1000 Research
IOP Publishing
....

14. Where is most
of the research
being generated?

15. In Universities by the
end of 2015, students will be:
● making use of figshare public data to
speed up the research process
● using our collaboration tools to manage
their research projects
● making research data publicly available
on figshare
● getting credit for their research

16. Contracts already signed
with universities from:
Europe
U.S.A
Australia

17. Technology stack
Databases
mariadb cluster
mongodb
elastic search
rabbitmq
Front end
less
reactJs
browserify
flux
Automated testing
unit tests
selenium
facebook huxley
BDD - python behave
Jenkins
Documentation
private wiki
sphinx
styledoco
Cool stuff
machine learning
latent semantic indexing
Backend
25 + instances on AWS
python (pyramid, tornado)
nodejs
apache thrift
ØMQ

18. figshare team
16 Romania, Iasi
5 UK, London
6 representatives U.S.A
1 representative Australia
150+ advisors Worldwide

19. We even have a large group
of canine supporters

20. figshare is awesome
We build stuff
that matters !
Claudiu Apetrei
developer at figshare
claudiu@figshare.com

21. CodeCamp
Iasi, October 25
2014