34 | Ewan Birney and the battle scars of discovery
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The Battle Scars of Data Analysis
When you're an outsider into a field, it's kind of a privilege almost because of the way data analysis works. You tell it can say, look, I do it like this; what's so wrong with doing this? And then, you know, sometimes the expert will come back and say,Yeah, yeah, yeah, we thought about that 50 years ago. Let me explain why this one doesn't work,. So talking through that again. Or, of course, they turn around the expert. If they're good and they're reminded, they're like, Yeah, well, we don't sure. We're not sure. It's as much about skepticism about your own ideas
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