Industrializing science

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Industrializing science is an idea of chopping research projects into smaller pieces in a new way, so that each person can focus on his/her own field of expertise. For example, an assessor working on a variable should focus on the knowledge and understanding of the topic. The assessor describes how the variable should be derived based on data and dependencies, but a code-builder actually writes a computer code with an appropriate software to perform the task. There are several advantages:

• The assessor saves time by not worrying about the software-specific issues where he/she is not an expert.
• The purpose and required functionalities of the code are documented early on and to the very detail, because it must be a sufficient specification for the code-builder.
• The actual writing of the code can be delegated outside the research group.
• The code-builders can specialise and produce libraries of ready-made functions for typical situations.