Research

Posts about scientific methods, reproducibility, study design, data management, and how to do research well.

2026-03-27Another Modest Proposal
2026-03-26Feasible
2021-01-27JoVE But Not For Me
2019-08-14Research This!
2019-06-06ICER Acceptance
2019-05-02Sexing Data Science Chickens
2019-03-07Learning to Program
2018-12-06Analyze That! Very Preliminary Results
2018-11-28Augmenting Error Messages
2018-11-05Abstraction and Comprehension Continued
2018-11-03Abstraction and Comprehension
2018-09-05Analyze That!
2018-08-28Two Abstracts for Two Audiences
2018-07-05Performance Curves, Curriculum Design, and Trust Revisited
2018-02-14'Analyze This!' for CS Education
2018-02-13Workshop Benefits
2017-06-19Ten Simple Rules for Being a Good Research Partner
2016-11-01A Reproducibility Reading List
2016-09-18Show Me Your Model
2016-08-02How Well Do Developers Understand Open Source Licenses?
2016-08-02Heuristic Evaluation for Novice Programming Systems
2016-03-13In My Better World
2016-02-25A Modest Proposal
2016-02-16Checking the Balance
2016-02-07Come a Long Way, Got a Long Way to Go
2016-01-09What the Data Says About Novice Programming Mistakes
2016-01-09Change Strategies in STEM Education
2015-12-06My Literature Problems
2015-10-23Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage
2015-10-17Journals as Repositories
2015-09-30Citation Format
2015-06-17Get More Done in Less Time
2015-04-13Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing
2015-01-17Orwell, Dickens, and How We'll Know We're Done
2015-01-04The Future and Funding of Science
2014-04-05Does Continuous Publication Require Continuous Attention?
2014-01-07'Best Practices' Has Been Published
2013-11-12Report on the PLOS/Mozilla Code Review Pilot
2013-10-17The State of Open Science
2013-09-27The Future: Today
2013-09-02Introducing Citation Files
2013-08-25Why Open Access?
2013-06-19The Twelve Bar Blues of Open Science
2013-05-03Make It Easier to (Re)use Your Data
2013-04-19Spreadsheets, Retractions, and Bias
2013-01-07Citation, Please
2012-09-04Not Really Disjoint
2012-06-14All Entries for the Executable Paper Grand Challenge
2012-06-04What Skills Are Required to Implement Open Access?
2012-05-18The Most Important Scientific Result Published in the Last Year
2012-03-18The Dark Matter of Computational Science
2012-02-22Granules of Research
2012-01-24Test-Driven Public Speaking
2011-10-22Research Without Walls
2011-09-19Past and Future
2010-12-27Open Research Computation
2010-06-01Who Reports On The Other 97 Per Cent?
2010-05-27A Few Things You May Not Have Known About Andrew Wakefield
2010-03-31This is History? This is Science?
2010-02-28Panton Principles
2009-08-15Anonymizing Student Data
2009-06-05A Cautionary Tale About Empirical Studies
2009-04-23The Penalty For Dishonesty Is Often Borne By Others
2009-03-25Seven Signs of Bogus Science
2009-03-02Open Science and Autism's False Prophets
2009-02-18Computer Supported Collaborative Science
2009-02-11Science in the Open
2009-01-23A New Kind of Big Science
2008-11-16What Sciences Are There?
2008-07-19Badge of Honor?
2008-06-06Faking Results
2008-03-06Journal of Visualized Experiments
2007-06-18Nature Precedings
2007-03-19Sign Error => Five Papers Retracted
2007-03-10Reproducibility of Computational Results
2006-10-31Computational Result Retracted