The Open Data Challenge: An Analysis of 124,000 Data Availability Statements and an Ironic Lesson about Data Management Plans

Six figures of this paper. Figure 1 shows cumulative data availability statements (left) and approximate cumulative number of submissions (right) from August 2012 to October 2019. The number of data availability statements increased dramatically in the first half of 2019. Figure 2 is visualization of the topics estimated by the LDA using pyLDAvis. Interactive plots available at DOI: 10.22541/au.157253515.58528497. Figure 3 shows topic distribution by percentage. Interactive plots available at DOI: 10.22541/au.157253515.58528497. Figure 4 shows document/topic matrix for the first 50 documents in the data set. Topic weighting ranges from low (blue) to high (red). Interactive plots available at DOI: 10.22541/au.157253515.58528497. Figure 5 presents word/topic matrix for the 20 most popular overall words in the data set. Topic weighting ranges from low (blue) to high (red). Interactive plots available at DOI: 10.22541/au.157253515.58528497. Figure 6 shows growth of individual topics over time. Interactive plots available at DOI: 10.22541/au.157253515.58528497.