Bioinformatics career survey results collected
August 4th, 2008July is over, and therefore so is the period for collecting results for this career survey. In total there are 681 entries. The top ten list of countries for results is shown in the graph below. The most entries were received from the USA, almost double of those received from France in second place.
World wide, the survey received entries from 52 different countries, which last week included Uganda, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. The distribution of countries in the survey is shown in the map below.
Finally I organised the results by macro-regions which, as you might expect, illustrated that the majority of entries came from North America and Europe.
Releasing the data
The next step is to release the data under a creative commons license, so that anyone who wants to, can analyse it. However, at the moment I’m just going through the data to tidy it up, such as converting converting figures like $30k to 30000 so that the results are standardised, and programmatically readable.
I had been thinking about a creative commons share-alike license, so that any derivative results are also released in the public domain. I had also thought to host the data, as well as create a page for collaboration on Open Wet Ware. All suggestions towards this are really, really welcome though, as the plan for this isn’t fixed, and there is a large element of working things out as they go on.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Do you plan on doing any merging/anonymization? In some regions of the world the data is pretty sparse, and so I wonder if individuals could be identified if you release the whole dataset.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Hey Michael, I’d be more than please to help you set up something at OWW. Let me know if you choose to do so
Great survey, btw.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
@Michael The survey was explicit in disclosure of data:
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The raw data entered into this questionnaire, along with any interpretation will be released into the public domain under a creative commons attribution license. If you are unhappy with answering any of the questions please leave them blank. By completing this questionnaire you consent to your answers being released.
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I’d be interested to see how the data divides among “current position” (grad student, PI, etc.) Thanks for running this survey. It’ll be fun to play around with the data!
August 6th, 2008 at 2:55 am
FWIW, posting something under a Creative Commons license is not the same thing as releasing it into the public domain. It will not be good for the Creative Commons efforts if people commonly confuse it and the public domain as being one and the same thing.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
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