Why Every Biotech Research Group Needs a Data Lakehouse

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:04:54 +0000

start tiny and scale fast without vendor lock-in

All biotech labs have data, tons of it. The problem is the same across scales. Accessing data across experiments is hard. Often data simply gets lost on somebody’s laptop with a pretty plot on a poster as the only clue it ever existed. The problem is almost insurmountable if you try to track multiple data types. Trying to run any kind of data management activity used to have large overhead. New technology like DuckDB and their new data lakehouse infrastructure, DuckLake, try to make it very easy to adopt and scale with your data. All while avoiding vendor lock-in.

Jan. 7, 2025: Building Dwelling Thinking

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Today’s product builders and data scientists shape the way people see the world. The analysis, plots, and UI we create are places where others dwell. Not merely occupy but live and harness the mental space we give them access to. Martin Heiddeger wrote Building Dwelling Thinking(archive.org) in his 1971 book, Poetry Language Thought.

Man’s relation to locations, and through locations to spaces, inheres in his dwelling. The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken

Data Visualization on Aneesh Sathe

Why Every Biotech Research Group Needs a Data Lakehouse

Jan. 7, 2025: Building Dwelling Thinking