[CODATA-international] Cost of Data Wrangling

[Jean-Claude BURGELMAN]

dear all
(sorry for reading this late)

its indeed  the study Lennart refers tp

I commissioned it in 2018 - the year EOSC was launched - to calculate the cost of not  having fair research data in Europe.
outcome:
- opportunity costs for science 10.2 bilion
- opportunity costs or innovation: 17 billion.

the latter was not published in the report as we thought the data behind it not robust enough to face skepticism.

the 10.2 billion figure is per year and i used it a lot inside the EC and towards officials of member states to show leadership that FAIR was more than a noble idea …and that we had to push for imposing it


best

jc burgelman


Op 11 dec. 2020, om 15:01 heeft Lennart Stoy <lennart.stoy at eua.eu<mailto:lennart.stoy at eua.eu>> het volgende geschreven:

Hi Ernie, hi all,

I think the study in question might be this one:

Cost-benefit analysis for FAIR research data: Cost of not having FAIR research data
https://op.europa.eu/s/ovJp

Best wishes,
Lennart

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Hi Eric

It’s a bit of an urban myth I think see https://blog.ldodds.com/2020/01/31/do-data-scientists-spend-80-of-their-time-cleaning-data-turns-out-no/, but it aligns with the Pareto Principle, so we are all willing to go with it!

I suppose it is not that important whether it is 80% or 60%, it’s still a massive problem and the takeaway is that it highlights where the source of most effort is being expended, and strongly suggests that it arises from poor data quality and lack of metadata to manage that.

Jon Johnson
CLOSER, UCL Institute of Social Research
@spuddybike

From: CODATA-international <codata-international-bounces at lists.codata.org<mailto:codata-international-bounces at lists.codata.org>> on behalf of Ernie Boyko <boykern at yahoo.com<mailto:boykern at yahoo.com>>
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Date: Friday, 11 December 2020 at 07:24
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Subject: [CODATA-international] Cost of Data Wrangling

Hi all
A study conducted for the EU? is often quoted as being the source of a statement along the lines of

     *   80% of effort in data intensive research is used on data wrangling; conservative estimate of 10.2 Bn Euro.

 Can anyone on this list point me to this study?
Many thanks in advance.  I am trying to make the case for the benefits of developing a career stream for data wranglers/data stewards.
Cheers, Ernie
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