SPORR: How to improve reproducibility of team science
How to improve reproducibility of team science: A CTSA BERD*s eye view
With larger teams and ever more data, practicing reproducible research is becoming increasingly complex. Those analyzing the data are often different from those who collect and generate the data, and different from those interpreting the data. This can lead to gaps in the team’s knowledge around key data processing or analysis decisions. Transparent, robust documentation is also a key step to uncovering errors. This talk will describe implications of these challenges as well as some generalizable, practical solutions developed within two CTSA Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) units.
Speakers:
Leah J. Welty, PhD
Professor and Director, Biostatistics Collaboration Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Manisha Desai, PhD
Professor of Medicine and of Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University