Show us your data!

By Isabell Kiral-Kornek

By now you might have noticed that here at ResBaz we have a thing for open data. And so had you during ResBaz 2015!

We believe that all data (and code) should be open to the public. 

Research papers that publish data sets along with their findings are on average cited 69% more often than their data-less siblings.

Philippa Karoly (who some of you might know as one of our excellent MATLAB helpers) and Ewan Nurse recently wrote such a paper. They went through the extra effort of sharing their collected data through GitHub and figshare. In their (soon to be published) paper, they analyse EEG data using MATLAB, producing some meaningful and beautiful images of brain activity. Data that could potentially be used to control quadcopter with your mind!

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And with Philippa’s and Ewan’s help, we created a short MATLAB lesson showcasing their stunning results.

The lesson even made it into the official Software Carpentry curriculum and can now be accessed and taught from all over the world.

How about you? Do you have interesting data that you would love to share with us? Maybe you are even thinking about using one of the research tools we teach to analyse your data? Come chat with us at Hacky Hour!