Good Enough Data & Systems Lab
We care about Good Enough Systems, whether they be computational or otherwise.
The Good Enough Lab is not only a consultancy, but a community of people who advocate for trustworthiness in science. We study mathematics together, read papers, code together, and develop advocacy materials.
Systemic Injustice Research Partners
As the Good Enough Lab’s founding Systemic Injustice Research Partner, Garima Gupta’s advocacy for biodiversity conservation in the Global South has helped shape the Lab’s values and purpose.
Dr Garima Gupta is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of biodiversity, Indigenous knowledge, and environmental justice. Her work explores how systemic and epistemic injustices shape conservation and sustainability in the Global South, with a focus on the Himalayan region. Drawing on both ecological and social science methods, she investigates community-led governance, plural knowledge systems, and reparative justice. Garima collaborates with the Good Enough Lab to co-develop inclusive, context-sensitive, and politically aware approaches to sustainability.
Learn more about Dr Gupta’s research—UN SDG trade-offs with The Beacon Project.
Garima and Charles collaborate with other conservationists for justice, such as our recent publications with Assistant Professor Maya Pasgaard from Aarhus University. Another influential collaborator is Questionable Research Practices expert Dr Hannah Fraser.
→ Learn more about Dr Gupta and Dr Gray’s research partnership.
Dr Charles T. Gray: CTO, Datapunk, Founder
Dr Charles T. Gray (she/her) identifies as a datapunk and good enough pianist.
Charles’ music career has been somewhat eclispsed by her data science, however the twenty years she spent performing and teaching music, suppporting herself as an independent musician, was formative in her approach to the Good Enough Lab.
Charles’ Performance at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
She has 3 bachelor degrees (music, arts, mathematics/statistics), 2 masters-level theses (film musicology, pure mathematics), and a PhD in statistical data science and systems epistemology.
→ Learn more about Dr Gray’s research.
Charles has extensive advocacy and outreach experience, with three national tours in Australia (AMSI, Code Like a Girl, World Science Festival Keynote), as well as individual events, such as chair at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Choose Maths campaign
Charles was guided to not enrol in mathematics by a highschool mathematics teacher, “you don’t have the trig”, at graduation. It took her ten years to work up the courage to undertake a mathematics degree.
She hopes she changed that story for at least one young woman with this campaign.
Recent presentations
In addition to her scientific publications, Charles has been presenting to coding communities for over 10 years. Here are a selection of her most-recent presentations.