Earlier this year the UK Statistics Authority downgraded police recorded-crime figures so they are no longer classed as national statistics, citing "accumulating evidence" that the underlying data on crimes recorded by the police may be unreliable.
ProPublica shares its underlying data on, say, doctors' links with pharmaceutical firms, helping to generate more coverage.
Journals already frequently require authors to supply underlying data on request.
It would seem that a reasonable approach would be selection components deemed important to define cost and quality of the underlying data based on the question at hand and on data availability and formulate an A-score metric from there.
On one hand, the underlying data going into the rankings were already available to socially-responsible investors... so the information release might have been greeted with a collective yawn from Wall Street.
Another key feature of Authorea will be a focus on the underlying data — and the formula/analysis that yielded that data — which underpins each scientific paper.
But scoring system value depends not only on the accuracy of the underlying data, but also on clinical trust in the reliability of the data and the predictions based on that data.
An additional limitation is that we did not verify the quality of the underlying data provided on governmental websites.
Second, the outcome of many key battles about future public services would depend on who owns the underlying data and the sensors that produce it.
