{"id":512,"date":"2014-01-08T22:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T04:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/?p=512"},"modified":"2014-01-09T00:10:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T06:10:21","slug":"the-best-math-in-life-is-free-help-gather-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/2014\/01\/08\/the-best-math-in-life-is-free-help-gather-the-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The best math in life is free? Help gather the data!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at the Secret Blogging Seminar<\/a> , Scott Morrison is championing a new project to analyze this year\u2019s \"open-access\"<\/a>mathematics publications and draw attention to freely accessible papers.\u00a0 The Mathematics Literature Project<\/a>\u00a0 is looking for your help in categorizing published articles according to whether they are freely accessible on arXiv, are freely accessible somewhere else, or are only accessible for a fee.\u00a0 After enough data are collected, one may be able to correlate accessibility and quality as measured by number of citations.\u00a0 There is a handy tutorial that will show you how to add information to the wiki by combing the internet for freely accessible versions of papers in well-known journals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The color-coded progress bars displayed next to each Journal title on the wiki indicate how many articles have been categorized so far and how.\u00a0 To see the key to the color-coding, you need to click on the bar itself.<\/p>\n

In case you are interested in looking at some journals not listed on the wiki, the tables of contents of various journals are available through the site JournalTOCs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lastly, while reading Data Scientist Michale Li’s The Mathematics of Gamification<\/a> post about how Foursquare uses Bayesian statistics to determine the quality of updates proposed by its users, I started thinking about how such a strategy might apply to peer review of academic papers in the future.\u00a0 Foursquare uses \u201choneypots\u201d to judge the quality of super-users\u2019 updates.\u00a0 Perhaps there could be certain academic papers that were \u201choney-pots\u201d (i.e. were peer-reviewed in a traditional way and determined to be of very high quality).\u00a0 These could help determine super-reviewers\u2019 ratings.\u00a0 Ratings could then also be informed in real-time by conditional probabilities.\u00a0 In other words, a user\u2019s rating could be informed by knowing the probability that a paper is \u201cgood\u201d given that the reviewer deemed it \u201cmediocre\u201d.\u00a0 What questions do YOU think that this data base might provoke or help answer?<\/p>\n

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Over at the Secret Blogging Seminar , Scott Morrison is championing a new project to analyze this year\u2019s mathematics publications and draw attention to freely accessible papers.\u00a0 The Mathematics Literature Project\u00a0 is looking for your help in categorizing published articles … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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