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the evidence you collected, before it becomes the story you tell about it.
means the raw observations, measurements, or records gathered during a study, which get analyzed to support or kill a hypothesis.
from from latin re- (again) and quaerere (to seek) plus datum, meaning that which is given — though in practice nothing about data collection feels given; it's fought for.
file drawer problemmost negative results never get published at all
reproducibility crisisover half of psychology studies failed to replicate
open data mandatemany journals now require raw data upon submission
data vs metadatathe label often outlives the number it describes
for instance
human genome project — 13 years, 1990-2003, sequenced 3 billion base pairs publicly
framingham heart study — tracked 5209 people since 1948, birthed cardiovascular risk science
climategate emails — 2009 leak turned raw climate data into a political weapon