this is a great article which i thought was worth spreading around in the event that people haven’t already seen it, which i came across at the bottom of this lingpipe blog post

while it’s written for the computational linguistics community, it applies to all scientific disciplines.

what can we do to influence more people to practice reproducible science??

Empiricism is Not a Matter of Faith

“What’s really missing is the software that produced the results that convinced the reviewers the article should be published. This is particularly troubling given the highly empirical nature of the work reported in so many of our publications. We publish page after page of experimental results where apparently small differences determine the perceived value of the work. In this climate, convenient reproduction of results establishes a vital connection between authors and readers.”