Posts with Tag "beginner"

• Data Science Workstation Build

  Matt Ralston

      22 Apr 2021

  In this blog post we’ll be reviewing the essentials of a mature workstation build, in this case, for graduate school. We begin with a look at what defines a workstation...

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• How Do I Become A Bioinformatician

  Matt Ralston

      05 Sep 2020

  I see plenty of posts on /r/bioinformatics of students or mid-career professionals asking what it takes to become a bioinformatician. What skills should I have? What programming languages should I...

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• Sorting Out Modules In Python

  Matt Ralston

      26 Feb 2020

  Oh yeah, it’s all coming together If you’re comfortable with the differences between dictionaries and modules, skip ahead to the section about modules where I explain directory layout and importing...

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• Data Engineers Vs Data Scientists

  Matt Ralston

      16 Feb 2020

  Introduction Big data is a meme, but there is a dichotomy worth discussing in the emerging interdisciplinary fields involving computer science. There is a choice that hybrid scientist-quants make during...

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• How To Build A Scientific Calculator In Python Part 1

  Matt Ralston

      15 May 2019

  About a 45 min read. Introduction Bioinformatics research in 2019 relies on high-performance, compiled C, C++, or Java programs to solve alignment and assembly problems efficiently. However, interpreted scripting languages,...

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• Beginner Python Arrays

  Matt Ralston

      14 Apr 2018

  Hello everyone! Today we'll be talking about essential array/list methods in different languages, reminding our readers of differences across languages. As beginner programmers, many of us are not aware of...

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