Why reproducability?
- Access:
- Taxpayers (= researchers) pay for research → should have access
- Better all humans → human progress! (Sci-hub controversy)
- Implies relying on open-source software
- Access in 100 years.. will STATA still exist?
- Memory
- You will forget what you did.. think of others..
- Reproducable document helps you trace your steps
- Ideally all stages of workflow
- Errors
- Manual steps (e.g. manual copy/paste) introduces errors
- Reproducible documents allow for automatization (counter argument?)
- Efficiency
- Automatization → paper revisions much faster