Really interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I think in so many fields the datasets are by far the highest impact thing someone can work on, even if it

Really interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I think in so many fields the datasets are by far the highest impact thing someone can work on, even if it seems a bit mundane and boring. Basically every field I've worked in struggles for need of reliable, well maintained and open access data, and when they do get it, it usually sets off a massive amount of related work (Seen this happen in genetics, ML of course once we got ImageNet and also started getting social media text instead of just old newspaper corpuses). That would definitely be advice I'd give to many people searching for a project in a field -- high quality data is the bedrock infrastructure for basically all projects in academic and corporate research, so if you provide the data, you will have a major impact, pretty much guaranteed.