Agree 100 %. The data of publicly funded studies should be available online so that people can run their own analyses on it. There could be a non-disclosure period of course to give the scientists that have done the original work an advantage when publishing their results.
I'm confident that we will see cloud-based systems for scientific data analysis in the near future though, especially for data which is uniform and for which good standards exists. For some areas like genomics we already see this, and I'm sure others will follow suit.
I also predict that being able to try out analysis algorithms on peta- or exabyte datasets will be a huge game changer for many areas of science, and will invalidate many current findings that are based on smaller datasets, while hopefully producing many new ones as well.
I'm confident that we will see cloud-based systems for scientific data analysis in the near future though, especially for data which is uniform and for which good standards exists. For some areas like genomics we already see this, and I'm sure others will follow suit.
I also predict that being able to try out analysis algorithms on peta- or exabyte datasets will be a huge game changer for many areas of science, and will invalidate many current findings that are based on smaller datasets, while hopefully producing many new ones as well.