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Can I request access to a database from another university if it is not available at my university?
For my PhD (finance) I need access to a scientific database. The problem is that my university unfortunately does not offer this database in its library. Another university (in the same city even) ...
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Is it ok (ethically speaking) to rename features of a dataset for publishing?
I work in the machine learning field where I deal with datasets provided by an industrial partner, and one concern of the project is the confidentiality of the data.
My team is working on a fault ...
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Reproducible, open, transparent, ethical Research when confronted to (patient) data anonymization : is it at all possible in practice?
A lot of Hype goes in reproducible, open and transparency for data analysis theses days in some fields mores that other. The code is to be share as well as the dataset.
How to achieve this in a ...
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Hugely important database replete with errors
I am about to finish my PhD in bioinformatics. I am trying not to give out too many details, so I won't be very specific.
In the field I am working in, there are two extremely important databases ...
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What to do when your name appears second instead of first?
As a Research Associate I wrote a paper which was published with my professor line manager as second author (even though he didn't work on the paper). I did the research, I wrote the paper, yet his ...
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Ethics of using public and illegally obtained databases for academic purposes
I'm on my senior year of college, and my professor and I have decided on an independent study where I will analyze and develop some method(s) for screening valid data sets for the 'selection' phase of ...
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