Recent years have witnessed progress of public institutions in making their datasets available online, free of charge, for re-use. This notwithstanding, there is still a long way to go to put the power of data in the hands of citizens. This article suggests that transparency in the context of open government can be increased through web maps featuring: i) Application Programming Interfaces (API...

Conservation science is a multidisciplinary and collaborative discipline. This journal's policy to encourage transparent open practices in science, including sharing of data, code, survey instruments. Such are especially important light emerging, broader scientific issues, such as reproducibility research protocols results, wasting outputs resources, questionable data reporting practices. Biolo...

Empirical research inevitably includes constructing a data set by processing raw data into a form ready for statistical analysis. Data processing often involves choices among several reasonable options for excluding, transforming, and coding data. We suggest that instead of performing only one analysis, researchers could perform a multiverse analysis, which involves performing all analyses acro...