WEEK 11 · DATASET ENGINEERING AND THE REPORTING FINDING
Do one thing. Then you are ahead.
Anyone who has merged two companies' ERP systems knows the pain: one reports revenue in thousands, the other in units; one calls a customer "Bioceres S.A.", the other "BIOCERES". Data engineering is 80% of a merger and 80% of a dataset. This week FermLit gets its merger treatment: units normalised (g/L vs mg/L), organism names mapped to NCBI taxonomy IDs (so "Y. lipolytica" and "Yarrowia lipolytica Po1f" become the …
If you only do one thing this week: normalized dataset export
Saturday sandbox
· after Sandve G. et al., "Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research", PLOS Comp. Biol. 9…
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By Sunday you should be able to say: “I can explain why kLa limits scale-up, and I can show a dataset card that answers a stranger's questions before they ask.”