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| **Can Uber for Bioinformatics?** | **Can Uber for Bioinformatics?** |
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| //At Uber, we work to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. We believe that everyone should be empowered to move freely and safely—physically, economically, and socially.// ― Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp | //We believe that everyone should be empowered to move freely and safely—physically, economically, and socially.// ― Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp |
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| Uber, a milestone for sharing economics, is known for delivering food or package, ridesharing, and ride-hailing etc. Riders are attracted by the cash-free, transparent waiting time and collect fares. Drivers are addicted into a dynamic pricing model based on the local supply and demand at the time of the accepting the order, i.e., the surging price, certain times boost per trip, or other promotions. Besides, the good thing about Uber is the transparent rating credit system. Riders and drivers both could rate each other and leave each trip feedback, which does matter for the next riding or driving. Because certain cities block low rated customers and drivers to use the Uber app. | Uber, a milestone for sharing economics, is known for delivering food (UberEats), ridesharing (UberPool), and ride-hailing (UberX) etc. Riders are attracted by the cash-free, transparent waiting time and fares. Drivers are addicted into a dynamic pricing model based on the local supply and demand at the time of driving, i.e., the surging price, certain times boost per trip, or other promotions. Besides, Uber is renowned for the reciprocal credit rating system. Riders and drivers could rate each other and leave feedback per trip. This matters a lot for the next ride or drive, especially in certain cities which block low rated riders and drivers on Uber. |
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| You might wonder why I talk about this Uber thing, or even believe I has lost mind since yesterday’s Tips and Tricks talk. With the development of sequencing technologies, [[Bioinformatics_essay5|Bioinformatics as A Career]] has been everywhere. There is a great need for the bioinformatics questions or requests to be asked and answered. Although there are Bioinformatics Q&A platforms available to conveniently search or post questions, such as BioStars (https://www.biostars.org), SeqAnswers (http://seqanswers.com), and Bioinformatics StackExchange (https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com). The relevant answers are usually evaluated/rated by the community, therefor your specific questions cannot be guaranteed, and it might take days or weeks to hear the reply. This is mostly due to no effective rewarding model to address your questions for the bioinformatician community. In another words, learning from Uber provides a solution to tackle the question raisers’ concerns, i.e., a balance between the waited time and guaranteed result. You might argue Uber paying the drivers for tips and fare. What the bioinformactian driver can get? There are many ways to earn credits for answering questions, which even can be used to prove the ability for job market. Anyway, there are definitely a lot of interesting sparkles when I say Uber for Bioinformatics. | Although there are many good things about Uber, this does not rule out its negative counterparts, such as passenger safety, racism, gender equality. However, as the title stands, I care more about the inspiration from its operating model. |
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| Can you imagine one day your bioinformatics abilities was tipped after you accepting an question order? | With the development of sequencing technologies, [[Bioinformatics_essay5|Bioinformatics as A Career]] has been everywhere. There is a great need for the bioinformatics questions or requests to be asked and answered. Although there are Bioinformatics Q&A platforms available to conveniently search or post questions, such as BioStars (https://www.biostars.org), SeqAnswers (http://seqanswers.com), and Bioinformatics StackExchange (https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com). The relevant answers are usually evaluated/rated by the broad community, therefor your specific questions cannot be guaranteed, and it might take days or weeks to hear the reply. This is mostly due to no effective rewarding model to address your questions from the bioinformatician community. In another words, learning from Uber provides a solution to tackle the questioners’ concerns, i.e., the balance between the waited time and guaranteed result. You might argue Uber paying the drivers for tips and fares. What can "bioinformactian driver" get? There are many ways to earn credits/bonus for answering questions, which even can be used to prove the ability for job market. Anyway, there are definitely a lot of interesting sparkles when speaking of Uber for Bioinformatics. |
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| | Can you imagine one day your bioinformatics abilities were tipped because of you finished a question order? |
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| <Xi Zhang, PhD | <Xi Zhang, PhD |
| Archibald Lab, Dalhousie University> | Archibald Lab, Dalhousie University> |
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| <Last updated by Xi Zhang on Feb 28th,2022> | <Last updated by Xi Zhang on Mar 10th,2022> |
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