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Heh, it takes a lot of work to convert illegible scribbles in lab notebooks to well-formatted numbers and descriptors that make sense to anyone else but the per

• analog31 3y ago
  Something I've noticed, coming as no surprise, is that the movement towards open data and analysis got its start in fields where the data are collected in digital form in the first place. Of course lab notebooks could be authored directly on a computer, but it's still hard in fields such as wet chemistry, where you're wearing gloves, handling toxics, and don't have hands free to move a laptop around. Plus, in most academic labs, the workers are still expected to supply their own computers, and are justifiably reluctant to donate one to the cause.