Rework the "why" section in the readme#121
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| * Open and supported by Posit, a public benefit corporation with a mission to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. We don't yet have a formal governance model, but in the meantime, you're very welcome to propose changes and additions in the [issues](https://github.com/tidyverse/data-dict/issues). | ||
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| * Built by data scientists, for data scientists. We understand the challenges data scientists face, and we've designed the spec to address them directly. This means including pieces that other dictionaries omit: support for metadata like data version and column units, descriptions of the relationships between datasets, and a glossary for domain- and team-specific terminology. |
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Very nice improvements from my PRs 🥳 now you've stated your target user, so just to be clear, you aren't designing this for or consider how/if data engineers, research software engineers, data stewards and data managers would use it?
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, that's a good point. I think I've probably overweighted data scientists because I love that phrase so much.
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And thanks for the feedback and other PRs. It's super helpful and I really appreciate it.
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Closes #118. Closes #117. Fixes #115.