Fueling Research Transparency: Computational Notebooks and the Discussion Section

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The results of academic research, often publicly funded, should be easily available for a wide audience that includes fellow researchers, policy makers, journalists and anyone who takes an interest. On top of this, the research itself should be done in a transparent way so that results can be reproduced or perhaps falsified, as transparent research is good practice across all academic disciplines. Arguably, however, it is even more central in fields such as Regional Science with salient and tangible implications for local, regional, national and international socio-economic policies. The advent of internet and the growing capacity of computers has increased both the possibilities and the societal demand for transparent science.