Irreproducible Research

[LeeMendelowitz]

No code or data has been shared for the following articles:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-return-of-mlbs-youth/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-to-expect-from-baseball-americas-top-100-prospects/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-value-of-the-nba-steal/

Some issues that could be addressed by publicy sharing data and code:

• A steal is worth 9.1 times a point, but the article makes no mention of confidence intervals.
• This conclusion is drawn from a sample of players who have missed at least 20 games and played at least 20 games in a season. Is this a representative sample? We have no way of assessing this because the underlying dataset has not been shared publicly.

[jnpaulson]

Seconded

[LeeMendelowitz]

From the FiveThirtyEight Manifesto, @natesilver538 writes: "We’ll share data and code on Github."

We know that code exists to perform these analyses. I think sharing the code and data would have tremendous educational value and would set a great example for what data journalism should be.

[ascheink]

Thanks for the note. I agree. We're working on it, and hope to have more to share in the near future.