What has reproducibility promotion done for me?

Why should I promote reproducibility? Doesn’t this distract me from my research? Here are four tangible benefits that show how being a data champion has helped my academic career.

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Good practice in data collection and storing

Research starts with data collection. Before you can do your analysis, you spend hours, weeks, months merging tables and transforming variables. This time is wasted if you don’t keep detailed logs about this process. Here’s a good practice guide.