Beyond physics envy: Toward a databservatory for human behavior

Rick O. Gilmore

2017-07-31 10:57:40

Psychology is harder than physics

What would a data observatory for human behavior look like?

Combine data from diverse domains

Enable web-based data visualization, analysis

Support search, filtering by personal characteristics

Encourage self/active curation of data, materials

Provide consistent, clear sharing permissions structure

Progress

Example Multi-measure Indiv link/search Visualize Self-curate Permissions
Databrary ✔ ✔ tabular ✔ ✔
Human Proj ✔ ✔ ? ? ✔
ICPSR ✔ ? ✔ ? ✔
Neurosynth fMRI BOLD group data ✔ public NA
OpenNeuro ✔ ? ✔ ✔ public
Open Humans ✔ ✔ ? ? ✔
OSF ✔ ✔ public
WordBank M-CDI group metadata ✔ ? public

Barriers

Metadata as “mortar”

Let’s build a Databservatory for human behavior

It should…

  • Store & share data & materials
  • Link data across studies, measures
  • Link across group characteristics, individuals
  • Enable searching & filtering by individual characteristics, tasks, settings
  • Support web-based data analysis, visualization; open API
  • Provide consistent framework for ethical data sharing
  • Enable data aggregation, cloning, provenance tracking
  • Support self/active curation
  • Link to publications
  • …

@rogilmore
gilmore-lab.github.io/sips-2017-databservatory

Acknowledgments


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