Jacob Wilkins gave us a look under the hood of compilers and interpreters, talking us through what is really happening when we run code.
The slides can be found here.
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Effective Data Visualisation for Research
Daniel Ellis gave a talk on designing visualisations, starting with the evolution of humans and working towards considerations to make when trying to convey research stories.
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I Just Can't Use My Laptop Anymore
Killian ran through some reasons why you might not be able to do your research computing on your laptop anymore, and introduced a range of computational resources offered to researchers by the University of York to help alleviate this problem.
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Building interactive web-apps in R with Shiny
Stuart gave an introduction to making web-apps in R using Shiny.
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A Year As A Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
Emma Rand gave us an introduction to the Software Sustainability Institute, described the SSI’s motivations, and described their own experience as an SSI fellow, including reasons why you should consider applying!
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