Sixty-nine

Organizing data and cubes.

1. Data Organization in Spreadsheets (tandfonline.com)

   The basic principles are:

   • be consistent

   • write dates like YYYY-MM-DD

   • do not leave any cells empty

   • put just one thing in a cell

   • organize the data as a single rectangle

     • (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row)

   • create a data dictionary

   • do not include calculations in the raw data files

   • do not use font color or highlighting as data

   • choose good names for things

   • make backups

   • use data validation to avoid data entry errors

   • save the data in plain text files.

2. Long‐term soil change in the US Great Plains: An evaluation of the Haas Soil Archive - Liebig - 2024

   

3. The misuse of permanganate as a quantitative measure of soil organic carbon - Margenot - 2024

   Combined variation in the reduction–oxidation reactions can entail up to fivefold variation in how much soil organic C is oxidized per unit permanganate reduced.

4. xkcd: Cell Organelles

   

5. Rubiks Cu—done.

6. Sasha knows

   50 things I know

   Out of 50, how many would you agree with?

I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.