In Defense of Extreme Openness

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   In Defense of Extreme Openness Jake VanderPlas Python In Astronomy

   2016
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   I think we all see the benefit of coding in

   the open . . . Eases Collaboration — Eases Sharing Heightens Visibility — Encourages Reproducibility Encourages Extensibility — Encourages Integrity etc. — etc.
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   . . . why not do all research in the

   open? Eases Collaboration — Eases Sharing Heightens Visibility — Encourages Reproducibility Encourages Extensibility — Encourages Integrity etc. — etc.
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   A case study from yours truly . . .

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   https://github.com/jakevdp/multiband_LS/ We wrote this paper on GitHub from day 1

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   gh-publisher Each new commit triggers a Travis CI process which

   builds the current paper PDF and pushes it to this website. . . https://github.com/ewanmellor/gh-publisher/
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    Jeff Scargle!!! — as in “Lomb-Scargle Periodogram”!!!!!!!

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    “But I might get scooped!”

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    . . . putting work on Github is publication!

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    . . . putting work on Github is publication! “Scooping”

    → “Plagiarism”
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    “But Jake. . . would you do this if there

    were any real competition?”
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    Three very similar papers all published within a few months

    last summer . . .
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    So. . . how did it turn out?

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    (* not that I’m keeping track . . .)

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    Be Open. Thank You.