We were joined for this episode by Tom Sainsbury, a neuroscientist who has a wealth of experience in using programming to deal with data. We discuss the ins and outs of "data science" as a discipline, as well as how it intersects with the world of professional programming.How do you deal with your data when you're collecting 500GB per day? How do scientists interact with code in a lab setting? What uses are there for data science in the wider tech industry? How can you tell a story with data and code? Find out all this and more in this week's scientific instalment of A Question of Code.Mentioned in this episode:PandasJupyter NotebooksBook: R for Data Science, by Garrett Grolemund & Hadley Wickhamfast.ai coursekaggle.com (datasets)pydata.orgFind Tom Sainsbury on Twitter as @sainsbury_tom
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