Jeff Montgomery added final.tex  over 9 years ago

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Science is a creative, iterative process.\\  With Authorea we wish to make it even more so.  It's not always clear what we should do or where we should go next. Dr. Uri Alon expertly discusses this phenomenon in \href{http://blog.ted.com/2013/06/13/scientific-research-and-improv-uri-alon-at-tedglobal-2013/}{his 2013 Ted Talk}. Having an open mind is critical, because most researchers are at least tangentially up against the unknown. That is where discovery happens because, simply put, anything can happen there.   With IPython integrated directly into your articles, you can bring your readers along the same path you took through the unknown. They can certainly judge its validity (after all, scrutiny and skepticism are givens in science). But more importantly, by opening up your findings to a wider community, someone will come up with a slightly different (or \textit{very different}) way through the unknown.   We will put up some interesting data sets and models over the next few weeks. If you want to fork them, go for it. If you have your own interesting data or models, drop us a comment and we'll get them up on the blog and subjected to the power of community effects.