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Writing documents for the 21st century
ALBERTO PEPE FEBRUARY 2017
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Scientific research impacts our lives in innumerable ways. And it’s just the beginning: science is becoming more computational, collaborative, data-driven, automated, and web-based.
Scientists produce 21st century research
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Collaborative Version controlled Connected to data Compatible formats
Written up using 20th centurytechnology
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A centuries-old scientific “paper” does not look too different from what we publish and read today.
Published in a 17th centuryformat
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scientific “paper” does not look too different from what we publish and read today.
Published
17th centuryformat
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What would Galileo do?
QUESTION
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Pepe A, Goodman A, Muench A, Crosas M, Erdmann C (2014) How Do Astronomers Share Data? Reliability and Persistence of Datasets Linked in AAS Publications and a Qualitative Study of Data Practices among US Astronomers. PLoS ONE 9(8): e104798. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104798
LINKS POINTING TO DATASETS ROT OVER TIME
Data and papers should not be two separate things
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The problem: inadequate tools for writing research
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An unusable hodgepodge of antiquated and ridiculously, ridiculously bad-looking tools.
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The problem, part deux: printer-centric documents
We’re still writing and typesetting documents meant to be printed. PDFs and Word files are not first-class web citizens.
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The writing and publishing of research should reflect its living breathing nature.
Efforts to visualize and create the artificial brain. Image - Allen Institute for Brain Science
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Track changes, done right
Superior version control, brought to you by Git
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Like Fitbit for Researchers
Promoting data sharing and encouraging openness
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Publication workflows
We make it easy to publish on Authorea (issue a DOI for your work, get cited) or in leading journals, via one click submission and export.
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Accelerating research
It takes a long time - too long - to get work written and published. Let’s get better at it.
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Success Stories
A collaboration of 200+ CERN researchers used Authorea to write the first post-Higgs Boson research article. Paper is published on Authorea and in the Journal of High Energy Physics
The first scientific article about the recent Ebola outbreak was written on Authorea, collaboratively, by 25 scholars working remotely. It was published in Cell and in Authorea as a preprint. The version on Authorea also includes data and source code to reproduce the study. It was covered by New York Times.
An entire classroom at the Center for Urban Space and Progress of New York University is using Citibike data to write data-driven interactive student papers about bike mobility in New York City.
Authroea allows for data-driven interactive graphics. Current integrations with Jupiter Notebooks, d3.js, plot.ly, cartodb, Bokeh and flotcharts.
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Serving the world’s leading institutions
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Press
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Contact us: Alberto Pepe [email protected] South 6th St. 3rd Fl. Brooklyn, NY
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