January 9, 2020

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Data science as a catalyst for scientific discovery

Data science as a catalyst for scientific discovery

Michelle Gill explains how data science methodologies and tools can be used to link information from different scientific fields and accelerate discovery in a variety of areas, including the biological sciences.
Talk Title Data science as a catalyst for scientific discovery
Speakers Michelle Gill (BenevolentAI)
Conference JupyterCon in New York 2018
Conf Tag The Official Jupyter Conference
Location New York, New York
Date August 22-24, 2018
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
Video Talk Video

Modern scientific research is evolving quickly and requires an increasingly interdisciplinary purview. Keeping pace requires harnessing every tool available to the modern researcher. Michelle Gill explains how data science methodologies and tools can be used to link information from different scientific fields and accelerate discovery in a variety of areas, including the biological sciences.

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