Dr Dermot Lynott's presentation for the 4th Lancaster Data Conversation

1. Making
The Most
ofYour Data
Dermot Lynott
Embodied Cognition Lab
Lancaster University
email: d.lynott@lancaster.ac.uk
web: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/lynottd/

2. • Collaborators
• Louise Connell
• Kerry O’Brien
• Katie Corker
• Funders
• Center for Open Science
• Association for
Psychological Science
• ESRC

3. • Can be very
difficult to wrangle
after-the-fact
• Increasing
requirements to
share data
• Organising and
sharing can have
unforeseen
benefits
(consequences?)

4. Journey of a data set

5. Collecting modality-
specific norms
• Abstract/Concrete distinction
has a long history
• Existing measures had problems
• We had planned a bunch of
studies and decided we needed
more specific measures
• Measures estimating experience
through different sensory
modalities
Rating [0-5]
ANGER
Modality
3.71 auditory
0.12 gustatory
1.41 haptic
0.35 olfactory
4.12 visual

6. Published dataset as a
journal article (2009)
Make larger dataset. Published as a
journal article (2013)
Several articles
demonstrate utility of
datasets (2010-2013).
Use as basis for funding
applications: Leverhulme;
ERC (2015)
Many others have
now used/extended the
data set
-Used in dozens of
other studies
- Translated into 5
languages
- Applied to robotics/
machine learning
- Used to identify markers
of depression and
Alzheimer’s in writing

7. How to make your
data travel further
• Store on a permanent repository
(OSF, Zenodo)
• Make sure it has an appropriate,
citable reference (doi, journal
number etc)
• Use suitable licence (e.g., cc-by)
• Make available in multiple basic formats (csv, .txt)
• Include code books, how-tos, analysis scripts etc.

8. Other observed features of
making data freely available
• Used in other studies, such as
meta-analysis
• Used for simulations or test-bed
• Used to generate new materials/
stimuli
• Used to give evidentiary support
to examples

9. What does sharing our data do?
https://aoasg.org.au/resources/benefits-of-open-access/

10. The End
(of the road?)