Becky Gilbert
beckyagilbert.bsky.social
Becky Gilbert
@beckyagilbert.bsky.social
MIT software dev, web-based experiments. Formerly at UCL, Cambridge, York. JavaScript & R & Data & open source/science.
Reposted by Becky Gilbert
Reposting for the morning crowd - We are holding a free online Psych-DS tutorial on Wednesday, June 4, 12pm EDT.

Psych-DS is like spellcheck for your datasets - you'll work on using it with one of your own, or find an open dataset at osf.io/mbvk4.

Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Psych-DS Workshop signups!
Psych-DS is an open source data standard for representing datasets in the social/behavioral sciences. It is designed for use by individual researchers who are collecting data, preparing datasets for a...
docs.google.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
At Grand Central in NYC on the last leg of my Seattle WA -> Poughkeepsie NY trip to attend the @jspsych.org hackathon. Exciting!!!

I'd love to hear what you think we should be working on. What is jsPsych missing? What are the pain points?
May 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Becky Gilbert
Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.

And it's live RIGHT NOW!

psych-ds.github.io

(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
Psych-DS
A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.
psych-ds.github.io
April 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by Becky Gilbert
jspsych will soon* support generating psych-ds metadata automatically from an experiment timeline. we have done most of the implementation and are ironing out the final details.

*probably summer 2025
Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.

And it's live RIGHT NOW!

psych-ds.github.io

(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
Psych-DS
A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.
psych-ds.github.io
April 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM