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A brief Twitter discussion of medical data openness vs. patient privacy.

A paper was retracted because researchers could not find the original decade-old data to defend against accusations of image manipulation.

Tweets about a lack of computer hardware curation and data documentation.

Tweets about the importance of efficient data sharing among doctors.

An explanation of how improved data curation methods can prevent situations like the controversial release of OK Cupid data from occurring.

The author voices his frustration with data repositories that are complicated to use and have too many features.

Since the original research data for a paper containing "suspicious" images could not be located, one of the authors has requested its retraction.

The author describes how, when he was a PhD student, the lab he worked in prevented data fraud by entrusting research data to an undergraduate student who had no stake in the outcome and no information about the experiment.

The author continues her call for case studies of research data re-use, as differentiated from re-use of data obtained from databases. She describes the responses received from the first call and resources that can be used to find more case studies.

The author describes how coding errors can be avoided by cross-checking the code with the same data before publication and publishing the original data.