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Ada Lovelace day
Was yesterday. But I suck.
rmc asked me to say what I do so... er.
So what do you do?
I'm a code monkey for a bunch of biologists.
No, more detail than that
I'm writing software in Matlab (spit) with a touch of C; I have two big projects to work on. One project is to collect experimental data, display it to the experimenter and then to save it to disk for later proper evaluation. The second project is the 'later evaluation' part, doing the display and analysis of the data.
Matlab (spit) fortunately has built in statistical analysis, so I've largely avoided having to actually write any statistical tests but there is a lot of work involved in sorting the data out into the parts that are interesting (to the experimenter, the program doesn't figure out "interesting" it just takes parameters from the experimenter).
Mostly my work involves finding sensible ways to store the data so that it's easy to pick out the interesting bits and GUI design. With a side order of data visualisation stuff.
I'm doing this from-scratch in Matlab, but not from-scratch overall - these programs already exist in Fortran for Classic MacOS, but we need a version that works on more modern computers (preferably yesterday it seems).
I get to support the post docs who are actually using this stuff. The feedback on "is this any good?" is fairly immediate, a bit panicky when it doesn't work but very satisfying when it does.
The biologists I work for do stuff I'm not supposed to talk about. So I won't.
Occasionally they get me to do bits of sysadmin stuff. I'm picking things up as we go.
What's fun
Even if I moan about it I actually like the jigsaw like aspect of keeping my data structures all neat and tidy. It's great when the boss says "do this new test" and all I have to do is bolt on a "testX(foo, bar)" rather than spend hours trying to sort out foo and bar from a pile of messy data. I find the data visualisation stuff interesting, coming up with new ways to show things so they make sense (it's kind of hard when it doesn't make any sense to me anyway).
I'd tag people. But I have a lazy.
rmc asked me to say what I do so... er.
So what do you do?
I'm a code monkey for a bunch of biologists.
No, more detail than that
I'm writing software in Matlab (spit) with a touch of C; I have two big projects to work on. One project is to collect experimental data, display it to the experimenter and then to save it to disk for later proper evaluation. The second project is the 'later evaluation' part, doing the display and analysis of the data.
Matlab (spit) fortunately has built in statistical analysis, so I've largely avoided having to actually write any statistical tests but there is a lot of work involved in sorting the data out into the parts that are interesting (to the experimenter, the program doesn't figure out "interesting" it just takes parameters from the experimenter).
Mostly my work involves finding sensible ways to store the data so that it's easy to pick out the interesting bits and GUI design. With a side order of data visualisation stuff.
I'm doing this from-scratch in Matlab, but not from-scratch overall - these programs already exist in Fortran for Classic MacOS, but we need a version that works on more modern computers (preferably yesterday it seems).
I get to support the post docs who are actually using this stuff. The feedback on "is this any good?" is fairly immediate, a bit panicky when it doesn't work but very satisfying when it does.
The biologists I work for do stuff I'm not supposed to talk about. So I won't.
Occasionally they get me to do bits of sysadmin stuff. I'm picking things up as we go.
What's fun
Even if I moan about it I actually like the jigsaw like aspect of keeping my data structures all neat and tidy. It's great when the boss says "do this new test" and all I have to do is bolt on a "testX(foo, bar)" rather than spend hours trying to sort out foo and bar from a pile of messy data. I find the data visualisation stuff interesting, coming up with new ways to show things so they make sense (it's kind of hard when it doesn't make any sense to me anyway).
I'd tag people. But I have a lazy.
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