Issue 5.3, Summer 2023

From the Editor-in-Chief

AI (Agnostic and Independent) Data Science: Is It Possible?

by Xiao-Li Meng

Issue 5.3 / Summer 2023

Panorama

Overviews, Visions, and Debates

A Conversation With Mercè Crosas

by Merce Crosas and Xiao-Li Meng

An interview with Mercè Crosas by Xiao-Li Meng

Special Theme: Reinforcing Reproducibility and Replicability

Guest Editors: Lars Vilhuber, Ian Schmutte, Aleksandr Michuda, and Marie Connolly

Reinforcing Reproducibility and Replicability: An Introduction

by Lars Vilhuber, Ian Schmutte, Aleksandr Michuda, and Marie Connolly

Costs and Benefits of Reproducibility in Finance and Economics

by Toni Whited

The Case for Data Archives at Journals

by Timothy C. Salmon

Reproducibility in Economics: Status and Update

by Hilary Hoynes

Data Citations and Reproducibility in the Undergraduate Curriculum

by Diego Mendez-Carbajo and Alejandro Dellachiesa

“Yes We Can!”: A Practical Approach to Teaching Reproducibility to Undergraduates

by Richard Ball

Reproducibility With Confidential Data: The Experience of BPLIM

by Paulo Guimarães

Open Data and Code at the Urban Institute

by Graham MacDonald

Publishing Replication Packages: Insights From the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

by Courtney R. Butler

Cornucopia

Impact, Innovation, and Knowledge Transfer

Critical Data Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Sustainable Development Goals: Solutions and the Role of Big-Data Analytics

by Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Ooi Keng Boon, Garry Tan, Binshan Lin, and Rabab Abumalloh

Stepping Stones

Learning, Teaching, and Communication

Fostering Better Coding Practices for Data Scientists

by Randall Pruim, Maria-Cristiana Gîrjău, and Nicholas J. Horton

Milestones and Millstones

Foundations, Theories, and Methods

Featured Discussion

A New Paradigm for Polling

by Michael A. Bailey

by Robin J. Boyd

Is It Time for a New Paradigm in Biodiversity Monitoring? Lessons From Opinion Polling

by Aurore Courtoy and Pavel Nadolsky

From Data Defects to Response Functions: A View From Particle Physics

by Walter Dempsey

Paradigm Lost? Paradigm Regained? Comment on “A New Paradigm for Polling” by Michael A. Bailey

by Murray Edelman

Not Really a New Paradigm for Polling

by John Eltinge

Methodological Context and Communication on Data Quality: Discussion of Bailey (2023)

by Andrew Gelman and Gustavo Novoa

Challenges in Adjusting a Survey That Overrepresents People Interested in Politics

by Shiro Kuriwaki

An Instrumental Variable for Non-Ignorable Nonresponse

by Roderick J. Little

The “Law of Large Populations” Does Not Herald a Paradigm Shift in Survey Sampling

by Sharon L. Lohr

Assuming a Nonresponse Model Does Not Make It True

by Pavlos Msaouel

The Role of Sampling in Medicine

by Oliver L. Pescott

Seek a Paradigm and Distrust It? Statistical Arguments and the Representation of Uncertainty

Rejoinder: Building a Paradigm That Allows for the Possibility of Non-Ignorable Nonresponse