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Learning to code: it's as easy and as complex as that. featured image

Learning to code: it's as easy and as complex as that.

Learning to code: it’s as easy and as complex as that. Many life scientists have used their time under pandemic-induced lockdown to learn their first programming language. Yay! …

Dezerae Cox
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Toolbox Talk: VSCode and Conda

There have been many rapid changes to how, and where, we work as the world settles into a pandemic-induced hibernation. After coming to terms with the fact that many labs could be …

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BioInfoSummer 2019

With half my home state on fire and the lead up to Christmas, this post has been in the works for a few weeks. But here it is - better late than never! My brief recap of my recent …

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Behind the scenes: Investigating the Investigators

The hottest topic on Australian researchers lips of late has been the recent NHMRC Investigator Grant announcement. I recently set about flexing my data-science muscles to see what …

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Investigating the Investigator Grants 2019

Introduction The hottest topic on Australian researchers lips this month has been the recent NHMRC Investigator Grant announcement. After all the commotion around the new scheme …

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Toolbox Talk: Storing data using HDF5 files

As an early-career researcher, I am still figuring out the best way to get stuff done. Every day it seems as though my to-do list gets longer and longer, for every item I tick off …

Dezerae Cox
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Toolbox talk: Atom, Jupyter and Hydrogen

As an early-career researcher, I am still figuring out the best way to get stuff done. Every day it seems like my to-do list gets longer and longer, for every item I tick off two …

Dezerae Cox
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Quick Recap: PyLadies Melbourne Event

Locating the labyrinth a nd meeting the meetup For a few months, I had been working on the courage to check out one of the many coding-related groups held all across Melbourne each …

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a weekend walk around the Bokeh library

If you’ve read my bio, you will know that I (somewhat arrogantly) consider myself “a passionate advocate for the use of programming by life scientists”. This came about following …

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Advanced Scientific Programming in Python Summer School

Another post, another conference! This time it was the Asia-Pacific “Advanced Scientific Programming in Python” Summer School. A full 6 days of intensive training in the …

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