I would love a way to flexibly view and move around lots of PDFs at different scales, to simulate piles on a desk or the floor. For some purposes, something is lost by constraining organization to a regular grid or table.
All they need to do is support external RAM so they can make a machine with up to 128 or 256gb of memory. It's easy enough, but for their reasons they have just chosen not to do it yet.
50 or 100 sites, each with say a few dozen liquid handling robots. Let’s say each site runs 200 plates per day.. doesn’t seem unreasonable. The only hard parts are the funding and regulatory requirements.
I wish that there were more apps that focused on the problem of searching and organizing archives and tracking ideas over time, rather than just another interface to the latest posts.
The kinds of analysis and visualizations you can build in 5 minutes with Tableau (and the ability to explore the space of possible analyses and visualizations) would take hours of futzing to reproduce with python.
At its core, Tableau is an implementation of a really elegant formalism to specify visualizations, and it's much more organized and declarative than something like Grammar of Graphics.