What's brittle?

[pm0kjp]

Sometimes we have parts of our experiment, or our data analysis, that feel "brittle". Maybe it's the downloading of radiology images, which for whatever reason only seems to work flawlessly every other Wednesday on odd-numbered months. Or maybe it's the power analysis, which we can never remember exactly how to do so we have to look up the instructions every time.

Often these brittle parts of our work can be a great place to consider automation, documentation, or some combination of the two. What's the tricky, brittle bit of your job? Can you think of a way to apply some of what you've learned so far in DART to make this brittle part better?