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Data collection #23

Closed luisahorsten closed 5 years ago

luisahorsten commented 6 years ago

The Data Collection Section is still completely empty. Let's collect some questions and resources!

luisahorsten commented 6 years ago

Software

FelixHenninger commented 6 years ago

Here's what I have:

Which open tools can I use for data collection?
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Over the past decades, a wealth of open, freely available tools for data collection has been made available to the scientific community. Because their source code is available and their internals can be examined and extended, these tools tend to have a rich set of features and an active user community. [Gezelter (2015)](https://doi.org/10.1021%2Facs.jpclett.5b00285) and [Ince et al. (2012)](https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature10836) provide further reasons for favoring open-source software in all areas of research.

In the following, we list a few of the available tools for different types of research. All of these are freely available as open-source software.

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Laboratory-based data collection
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* [**OpenSesame**](http://osdoc.cogsci.nl) is a powerful, free and open experimental builder with a graphical interface for building studies.
* [**PsychoPy**](http://www.psychopy.org/) has a more basic interface, but makes available many powerful features through additional code.
* Several further options are available for researchers looking to program studies from scratch, for example [PyEPL](http://pyepl.sourceforge.net/) and [Expyriment](http://www.expyriment.org/) for Python, and the [Psychtoolbox](http://psychtoolbox.org/) for [Matlab](http://www.mathworks.com/) and its open analogue [Octave](http://www.octave.org/).

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Online / browser-based data collection
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### Questionnaires

* [**LimeSurvey**](https://www.limesurvey.org/) is a very versatile tool with a graphical interface for building online questionnaires and surveys.
* [**formr**](https://formr.org/) uses the [R programming language](http://r-project.org/) to enable very flexible and powerful logic within questionnaires, for example immediate graphical feedback, and complex designs with multiple waves and reminders.

### Experiments

* [**lab.js**](https://lab.js.org) offers an easy-to-use graphical interface for constructing studies, similar to laboratory-based experimental software.
* [**jsPsych**](http://jspsych.org/) is a framework for programming experiments in JavaScript.

### Study hosting
* [**JATOS**](http://www.jatos.org) and [**Tatool**](http://tatool.ch/) help coordinate data collection, and allow researchers to construct batteries from multiple tasks. They also offer additional features such as a powerful integration with [Amazon Mechanical Turk](https://www.mturk.com/), and (in the case of JATOS) capabilities for interaction between participants through chat and economic games.
* [**Pavlovia**](https://pavlovia.org/) is a repository for sharing and hosting online studies. It provides full version history for all files, automated data collection, and a public issue tracker.

Wanna clean this up and make a page?

FelixHenninger commented 6 years ago

Ok, pushed this to https://how-to-open.science/collect/tools/ because an Open Science Fellow was looking for it (see 3857acfb1a8d31c23d0eeef50b8688769fd1893f). Feedback and extensions are still very welcome!

FelixHenninger commented 5 years ago

Ok, I think we settled this one!