Are individual scientists starting to appreciate data quality?
They are the ones crying for it more than anyone. Compliance to global data standards used to be a stick and carrot thing, but it’s becoming more carrot than stick. Once people and product teams get a taste, they became inordinately more excited about it and begin to utilize broader and more informative datasets when they try to solve problems in a particular program. What if a scientist insists on a technology that only serves a very small niche? We listen. Often their arguments hold. But what we find is that they will say, “I need this” or, “I want to do this collaboration.” We’ll say, “Are you aware of these four other collaborations that we have?” And for any one of them that we are invested in, we could re-write the scientific plan, and that could meet your needs. Often they say, “Sure, that will meet my needs.” As a result, we don’t have to spend any additional money — the capability is already there. Do you worry about IT, or is that someone else’s problem? Clearly not! I worry
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