Research Methods

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

2026-06-05Priority Starvation
2026-06-05Braess's Paradox
2026-06-05Rush Hour Displacement
2026-06-05The Convoy Effect
2026-06-05Tandem Queue Blocking
2026-06-04The Inspector's Paradox
2026-06-03Late Merge
2026-06-02Pooled vs. Separate Queues
2026-06-01Queue Nonlinearity
2026-05-31Sojourn Time
2026-05-31Three Research Questions About AI
2026-05-30Little's Law
2026-05-29Queue Formation
2026-05-28Basic Ideas in Queueing Theory
2026-05-27Building a City, Not a Car
2026-05-12Behavioral Economics
2026-04-08Lessons from Business
2026-04-08Lessons from Crisis
2026-04-08Lessons from Disaster Management
2026-03-27Another Modest Proposal
2026-03-26Classifying Research Software
2026-03-26Feasible
2026-03-25A Modest Proposal
2025-11-29What Changed Revisited
2025-11-28What Changed?
2025-11-26Malice and Randomness
2025-11-25You Can't Tell
2025-09-12Searching for Closure
2025-08-21Things I'm Looking For
2025-08-15Productivity Workshop Ideas
2025-07-19Workshops I Want
2025-07-18No Satisfaction
2025-04-12Research Threat Models
2024-12-14Snailz
2023-12-08Depressing Reading
2023-10-02Two Unfunded Proposals
2023-09-09An Approach to Motivating Coding
2023-08-20Ad Astra Simul
2023-08-10Writing a Technical Book
2023-06-19Eleven Tips for Organizational Change
2023-03-22Workshop Proposal: Organizational Change
2023-03-04The Only Features I Need
2023-02-26Provenance Revisited
2023-02-23It Will Never Work in Theory: April 2023 Lightning Talks
2023-02-13Soup, Then Prayers
2023-01-20What Would Entice Them?
2022-11-20Journal of Comprehensible Explanations
2021-12-26Effort Estimation
2021-08-24Textbooks (Alone) Are Not Enough
2021-03-30The Fourth Tradition
2021-03-04Staying Safe Online
2021-02-19Blinkered Visions
2021-01-27JoVE But Not For Me
2021-01-07Steps in Order
2020-01-04A Model Experiment
2019-11-03Ten Simple Rules That Are Missing
2019-08-14Research This!
2019-08-10Exoplanets
2019-07-07A Veteran of a Thousand Language Wars
2019-06-06ICER Acceptance
2019-05-28Checking-Driven Development
2019-05-02Sexing Data Science Chickens
2019-03-07Learning to Program
2018-07-17Link Rot
2018-01-15Ten Simple Rules for Being a Good Educational Research Partner
2017-12-15What Does Peripheral Participation in Data Look Like?
2017-09-18Disappearing Data
2017-06-22Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing
2017-06-19Ten Simple Rules for Being a Good Research Partner
2016-11-01A Reproducibility Reading List
2016-10-20Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage
2016-05-18Looking for a Model
2016-02-17Building Software, Building Community: Lessons from the rOpenSci Project
2016-01-21Our Introduction to Git Has Been Published
2015-12-06My Literature Problems
2015-10-23Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage
2015-10-17Journals as Repositories
2015-09-30Citation Format
2015-08-12Publishing, Metadata, and Being Ahead of the Curve
2015-06-11Why We Can't Have Nice Things
2015-04-13Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing
2015-02-12Online Scientific Collaboration: The Sequel
2015-01-17Orwell, Dickens, and How We'll Know We're Done
2015-01-04The Future and Funding of Science
2014-11-18Close Enough for Scientific Work
2014-04-05Does Continuous Publication Require Continuous Attention?
2014-01-07'Best Practices' Has Been Published
2013-11-16Citing Us In Your CV
2013-11-13Data Science Centers at UCB, UW, and NYU
2013-10-17The State of Open Science
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
2013-05-02A Rational Computing Process: How and Why to Fake It
2013-04-19Spreadsheets, Retractions, and Bias
2013-01-07Citation, Please
2012-12-15Lorena Barba's Reproducibility PI Manifesto
2012-10-10Dark Matter, Public Health, and Scientific Computing
2012-10-03Best Practices for Scientific Computing
2012-06-14All Entries for the Executable Paper Grand Challenge
2012-06-04What Skills Are Required to Implement Open Access?
2012-05-22Citing Versions
2012-05-18The Most Important Scientific Result Published in the Last Year
2012-05-15Fooling the Internet
2012-04-17In Search of Prior Arguments
2012-03-18The Dark Matter of Computational Science
2012-03-05Programs as Experimental Apparatus
2012-02-22Granules of Research
2011-10-22Research Without Walls
2011-10-14The Science Code Manifesto's Five C's
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
2009-09-21Another Reason to Care About Provenance
2009-08-30Discussing the Balance
2009-08-24Science and JoVE
2009-08-21The Big Picture
2009-08-15Anonymizing Student Data
2009-08-03What *Is* Open Science?
2009-06-05A Cautionary Tale About Empirical Studies
2009-06-01Big Code vs. Science 2.0
2009-06-01Video Abstracts
2009-04-28NSERC Should Just Give the Money Away
2009-04-23The Penalty For Dishonesty Is Often Borne By Others
2009-04-15Database of Empirical Software Engineering Publications
2009-03-25Seven Signs of Bogus Science
2009-03-25Umm… Remind Me How We Do This?
2009-03-02Open Science and Autism's False Prophets
2009-02-23Das Kapital, Computational Thinking, and Productivity
2009-02-18Computer Supported Collaborative Science
2009-02-12How Dare They Hold Us Accountable?
2009-02-11Science in the Open
2009-01-23A New Kind of Big Science
2009-01-17Graduate Students
2008-11-16What Sciences Are There?
2008-07-23Badge of Reproducibility
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
2006-12-05YouTube for Data
2006-10-31Computational Result Retracted