Having a great data management plan allows you to spend your workdays on your true area of expertise, instead of worrying and wondering how to store, or where to find, your data. However, in the field of life sciences, it can be difficult for highly specialised R&D scientists and IT ...
While most people will agree with the statement, “data management is important”, it might be harder to agree on exactly how or why scientists should implement a solid data management plan. One of the reasons behind this disconnect is that data management means a lot of different things to different ...
As summer turns to fall each year, we see a drop in both ice cream sales and homicides. One way to interpret this data would be to announce that you’re never eating ice cream again – it’s too dangerous! However, that interpretation has a problem: you’ve confused correlation and causation. While ...
Imagine that you are a scientist in the early 2000s, and you’re interested in studying microbiomes. You love going out into the field and collecting samples, but after each expedition, you know that there is a long road ahead of you. After collecting a sample, you will need to culture it in a petri ...
