March 5, 2015

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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    Richard Penny

    I’m a great believer in open data but feel the need to point out that “free” (open) data is not “free” (costless). It’s like saying roads should be free to use, which of course means that some users do better than others out of it.

    I also point out a recent RatSWD working paper #246, “A Reputation Economy: Results from an Empirical Survey on Academic Data Sharing” on the views of academics sharing their data – the cost of doing so being one hold up.

    10 years ago