NSERC Open Data Exploration

• 2018-11-24
• NSERC  
• Research Policy  

NSERC Open Data Exploration

The 2018 federal budget of Canada 🇨🇦 announced significant new investments in research. The Canada Research Coordinating Committee is defining a work plan to promote "international and risky research; support for Canada's next generation of researchers; equity, diversity and inclusion; and indigenous research and capacity building".

This site explores the NSERC Awards Data with the goal of helping Canada to achieve the best outcomes for research and training of future researchers. Open analysis of research investments also helps advance the goals outlined in the Mandate Letter to the Minister of Science.

Canada's Open Government Portal includes NSERC Awards Data from 1995 through 2016. The awards data (in .csv format) were copied to an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket and analyzed using computing resources from PIMS on cloud infrastructure from Compute Canada and Cybera.

TODO Set up similar analyses for SSHRC

TODO Set up similar analysis for CIHR

You are invited to collaborate on the analysis of investments made by NSERC. Access to the data and source code are shared in a public repository on GitHub.

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Overview

NSERC Budget

Interactive Notebook: Exploring NSERC

Accumulated Program Investments [1995 - 2016] Top 25

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Accumulated Principal Investigator Investments [1995-2016] Top 25

TODO NSERC's Open Data does not report gender of PIs. Find ways to measure equity, diversity, inclusion metrics over past investments.

TODO How can we connect the reported dollar investments to measurements of research output?

Discovery

| Name | Reported Dollars | |------------------------+------------------| | Hormes , Josef | 99836800 | | Gupta , Arvind | 97587570 | | McWalter , Ian | 75503588 | | Fortier , Louis | 72542772 | | Frise , Peter | 63874923 | | Barge , Brian | 50400000 | | Thomlinson , William | 46610800 | | Fedosejevs , Robert | 40720798 | | McDonald , Arthur | 36781300 | | Orr , Robert | 32043881 | | Smith , Donald | 31227906 | | Mufti , Aftab | 28761712 | | Wallace , Douglas | 28433833 | | Servos , Mark | 28130452 | | Rogers , Harry | 27590000 | | Salama , Andre | 26296562 | | Burton , Howard | 25000000 | | Yada , Rickey | 24982617 | | Clowes , Ronald | 24072844 | | Pelton , Robert | 23985763 | | Svensson , Carl | 22782441 | | Lamb , Robert | 21349800 | | Chrisman , Nicholas | 21286250 | | Larter , Stephen | 20024564 | | Bourbonnais , Normand | 17753965 | |------------------------+------------------|

Evaluation Groups

Interactive Notebook: Evaluation Groups Analysis

Award Amounts

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TODO Why do 1501 and 1502 receive so much more investment than other EGs?

Number of Awards

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TODO Why are there so many more awards in 1501 and 1502 than in other EGs?

Bin Frequency

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Example: 1504 (Chemistry); FiscalYear 2013

TODO Find a way to infer bin levels based on awards data amounts

Engage

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Interactive Notebook: Engage Grants

TODO Find a way to connect Engage Grant investments to economic impact metrics.

CRC noexport

CRD noexport

1508 noexport

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The Long Range Plan arranged for the math/stats envelope to have \( \frac{CTRMS}{1508 + CTRMS} = 0.19 \) during 2014-2019. NSERC's Open Data shows a discrepancy of more than $1MM.