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Understanding the value of curation: A survey of US data repository curation practices and perceptions

Data curators play an important role in assessing data quality and take actions that may ultimately lead to better, more valuable data products. This study explores the curation practices of data curators working within US-based data repositories. We …

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

This page contains an open syllabus, assignments--including interactive multiple choice self-check questions--and rubrics for a semester-long course teaching open science through the lens of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The syllabus and …

Using artificial intelligence to create diverse and inclusive medical case vignettes for education

Introduction Medical case vignettes play a crucial role in medical education, yet they often fail to authentically represent diverse patients. Moreover, these vignettes tend to oversimplify the complex relationship between patient characteristics and …

VA Big Data Science: A Model for Improved National Pandemic Response Present and Future

Background The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise approach to research (VA Research) has built a data-sharing framework available to all research teams within VA. Combined with robust analytic systems and tools available for …

Why and How to Use Pre-Analysis Plans

We describe what is a pre-analysis plan (PAP) and why you should use one. We emphasize the potential political uses of PAPs and, in particular, how the PAP is in this respect a uniquely powerful tool for increasing the likelihood that evidence …

Milgram Obedience Experiment: An Agent-Based Model

An open, interactive agent-based model (ABM) exploring Stanley Milgram's classic obedience experiments through computational modelling. Built with the Mesa ABM framework and a Streamlit dashboard, it simulates how situational factors (experimenter …

How to Test AI Research Tools: A Repeatability Worksheet and Worked Example

A free teaching activity for evaluating AI literature-search assistants through repeated use rather than one polished response. Learners run the same scholarly-search task three times, preserve visible sources, log test conditions and access …

Open Lab

The Open Lab platform empowers researchers to collect rich datasets by combining lab.js tasks with Open Lab's own study-building logic and participant-management system: lab.js provides the interactive tasks and surveys, while Open Lab adds the study …

Samply

Samply schedules push notifications to study participants on a flexible, repeating cadence. It works for any longitudinal design — daily diaries, experience-sampling, intervention studies, clinical trials — wherever you need to reach participants …

SMAAT

SMAAT (Sensor-based Mobile Application for Assessment and Tracking) lets you design studies, schedule experience sampling, and collect encrypted survey and sensor data from iOS and Android participants — with real-time compliance dashboards, …
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