What are Australian researchers doing to bridge the data gap?
To maximise investment, it is important that research findings are open, accessible and clearly communicated to relevant stakeholders. Best practice promotes rigorous science, and research that is open, engaging and reproducible. Despite best practice, it is still possible for gaps to exist between research outputs (code/data/results) and consumers of research (policy makers/other researchers/the general public). This is the Data Gap.
Bridging the Data Gap requires formal, reproducible workflows, including reproducible computational environments, and analysis platforms that allow researchers to share their code, data and findings in an open and engaging format. We refer to these environments as interactive analysis platforms. This project focuses on the following questions:
- Are Australian researchers currently using interactive analysis platforms?
- What tools are they using?
- How can the ARDC support Australian researchers to use these platforms?

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Who is this project for?
Infrastructure providers
What does this project enable?
Projects in this area will contribute to determining what vision, governance structure and implementation program is necessary to create an Australian research data commons.
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