Web-based visulaization of marine mammal health across space and time with application towards marine spatial planning
Abstract
Hardly a week goes by without one of the major scientific publications like Science or Nature publishing a paper, news article, or e"ditorial discussing the issues surrounding reproducible research. Reproducible research can be defined as an analysis that contains computer code and that the two can be used to replicate the claims made in the manuscript. It can be problematic if scientific results are not easily reproducible. Authors of these papers argue that embracing a reproducible workflow can benefit the scientist resp"onsible for the analysis, as well other scientists interested in - but not familiar with - the work. Here we propose to create a gui"deline for conducting reproducible research for those within the Office of Naval Research Marine Mammal & Biology community (ONR/MMB) in order to foster greater sharing of code and analyses. Using detailed examples from our own work - namely right whale health - w"e will document how a reproducible workflow can be implemented using R, modern software version control system, and web-based intera"ctive graphics. This example will be supported by an R and hosted on a public code repository. We will write and submit scientific manuscripts to support this work and host three webinars to more completely explain the many facets of a reproducible workflow. We argue that science can advance more rapidly and its impact can be extended when it is easier to build upon pre-existing work." In this proposal, we will undertake two maj""or research items. The first will be an R package that estimates health, movement, and survival in individual right whales. This wil""l formalize the code that has written under previous ONR grants, and incorporate more reproducible research techniques. In particula""r, we will include raw and processed data, short and long form documentation, and interactive graphics. A manuscript will summarize" this work. The second component will be a manuscript that uses the right whale package for health as a working example to show how scientists can conduct a fully reproducible research workflow. This manuscript will include instructions on using version control t"ools like git to support reproducible research. In addition to the manuscripts, we will have three different avenues of public outre"ach to the Office of Naval Research/Marine Mammal Biology community. These will be: 1) an ongoing hosted interactive web-based app that documents right whale health; 2) a presentation of our work at the 2018 UseR! Conference; and 3) three live webinars to the ONR/MMB community describing and showcasing reproducible research workflows.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141712817
Entities
People
- Robert S Schick
Organizations
- Duke University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy