I’m an academic researcher, and came across EA this year while reflecting on possible future research areas & career paths. I’m really enjoying combing through all these posts!
While exploring EA survey results (e.g. here) and similar community posts (e.g. here) I noticed contributors made solid attempts at transparency, but some links to source data or code are now invalid.
In the interests of EA transparency and posterity, it seems like there should be a single ‘go-to’ place to find and explore all the EA data (& code where relevant). I checked the Data (EA Community)tag but didn’t find a guide. Perhaps I haven’t gone deep enough yet, or perhaps there are GDPR barriers to this.
Anyone know if this—e.g. some master list of GitHub repositories or doi’s—exists?
Please correct my newb mistake if this is not the right place to ask! Taking a shot here as I’m not yet confident enough with the rules to create a dedicated post.
Your instinct that there isn’t a “go-to” place for all data is correct. Not sure about GDPR barriers, but it seems likely that a lot of things became unavailable (or were never available) because the people running those projects just got caught up in other things.
Fortunately, we have mechanisms for funding useful projects that no existing person maintains yet. If you’re really interested in sorting through everything and making it available, that might be a good candidate for the EA Infrastructure Fund. And if you’re busy with other things, you can even propose that they pay someone else to do this!
Hi everyone,
I’m an academic researcher, and came across EA this year while reflecting on possible future research areas & career paths. I’m really enjoying combing through all these posts!
While exploring EA survey results (e.g. here) and similar community posts (e.g. here) I noticed contributors made solid attempts at transparency, but some links to source data or code are now invalid.
In the interests of EA transparency and posterity, it seems like there should be a single ‘go-to’ place to find and explore all the EA data (& code where relevant). I checked the Data (EA Community) tag but didn’t find a guide. Perhaps I haven’t gone deep enough yet, or perhaps there are GDPR barriers to this.
Anyone know if this—e.g. some master list of GitHub repositories or doi’s—exists?
Please correct my newb mistake if this is not the right place to ask! Taking a shot here as I’m not yet confident enough with the rules to create a dedicated post.
Your instinct that there isn’t a “go-to” place for all data is correct. Not sure about GDPR barriers, but it seems likely that a lot of things became unavailable (or were never available) because the people running those projects just got caught up in other things.
Fortunately, we have mechanisms for funding useful projects that no existing person maintains yet. If you’re really interested in sorting through everything and making it available, that might be a good candidate for the EA Infrastructure Fund. And if you’re busy with other things, you can even propose that they pay someone else to do this!
I agree. I was having some similar ideas. I’m particularly thinking about data surrounding effective giving choices and attitudes towards ‘EA issues’.
Was thinking some tagging of EA-relevant data on kaggle.com, but the Github repo idea seems gret