Side-stepping safeguards, data journalists are doing science now 2

[drawoh]

From Salon.com...

Side-stepping safeguards, data journalists are doing science now.

The article originated on Undark. Author Irineo Cabreros is a mathematician not an engineer, but this is still interesting.

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[GregLocock]

"Science produced by news outlets should be completely reproducible. This means that an article should link to the data and code used to produce its analysis, allowing anyone to look directly under the hood."

True, but ALL science should be reproducible. No hiding of data or algorithms. That's why it took so long for the hockey stick to be exposed.

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