Made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Data Lifecycles
I was asked about a positioning statement for my business, to describe who I work with and what outcome I help them with: something like “Helping X with Y”.
FAIR and Stages of Reusability
The four components of FAIR can be mapped to successive stages of reusability: possible, plausible, probable, and perishable.
A FAIR Slice
I like Cynthia Arnold’s approach to the problem of data discovery for a materials R&D organization.
The Perils of Eager Type Inference
Microsoft Excel is known to, by default, convert gene names to dates and floating-point numbers.