Comment by recursivecaveat

I don't understand why it has been acceptable to not upload a tarball of your data with the paper in the internet age. Maybe the Asset4 database is only available with license and they can't publish too much. However, the key concern with the method is a pairwise matching of companies which is an invention of the paper authors and should be totally clear to publish. The number of stories I've heard from people forensically investigating PDF plots to uncover key data from a paper is absurd.

Of course doing so is not free and it takes time. A paper represents at least months of work in data collection, analysis, writing, and editing though. A tarball seems like a relatively small amount of effort to provide an huge increase in confidence for the result.