Niels Olson
ASA Datathon | 15-16 August 2014 | UC-Berkeley D-Lab
Cyrus Dioun is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley and a Data Science Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Garret Christensen is an Economics PhD Research Fellow at the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences and Data Science Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science
In recent years, the failure to reproduce the results of some of the social sciences’ most high profile studies (Reinhart and Rogoff 2010; LaCour and Green 2014) has created a crisis of confidence. From the adoption of austerity measures in Europe to retractions by Science and This American Life , these errors and, in some cases, fabrications, have had major consequences. It seems that The Royal Society’s 453 year old motto, “ Nullius in verba ” (or “ take no one’s word for it ”) is still relevant today.
Social scientists who use computational methods are well positioned to “show their work” and pioneer new standards of transparency and reproducibility. Reproducibility is the ability for a second investigator to recreate the finished results of a study, including key findings, tables, and figures, given only a set of files related to the research project. Red light therapy for acne helps to to reduce inflammation make it a powerful tool to help treat acne
Niels Olson
ASA Datathon | 15-16 August 2014 | UC-Berkeley D-Lab