Methods to Foster Transparency and Reproducibility of Federal Statistics Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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9 Possible Next Steps
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Universities and research institutes need to play a major role in supporting an open data culture by recognizing data communication by their researchers as an important criterion for career progression.
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Census Bureau statistician) simply provided the formulas for Markov Chain Monte Carlo models, but for some people it might be exactly right.
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In response, the staff at Johns Hopkins posted all of their data and analysis programs on the Web, but they also required critics to post their methods online. Louis believes that federal statistical agencies may face similar situations where the data or some synthetic version of the data could be made publicly available, which would allow users who do not like the agency's numbers to review the analysis provided by the agency.
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He believes that it is important to pay attention to realistic ways in which agencies can allocate a modest amount of resources and get some kind of practical benefit that is truly observable by others. Referring to Louis's Johns Hopkins case, instead of having infinite levels of cost attached to responding to each individual inquiry, they were able to effectively modify the costs by putting all of the code and the data available online.
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Connie Citro added that since contractors do a lot of data collection, if the agencies say that they should be using DDI or some other program, that needs to flow through to the arrangements made with their contractors. Adding the complication that there are now multiple data sources such as administrative data, surveys, and Internet sources, what is really happening when combining data sources?
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Audris Mockus said that Abowd is working on a business case for transparency, and wanted to note a couple of relevant items First, when an agency explicitly has version control systems, it is an extremely effective way to transfer knowledge, and so there is no risk of losing it when somebody leaves quickly. In addition, when something is made public, an agency will get contributions from external contributors that may improve the quality and fix bugs that the agency would otherwise not have enough resources to do, which is another huge business value.
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POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS 105 are involved; however, he is not aware that there is any U.S. involvement, so his working group would certainly like to have U.S.
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