Sarah Beecroft on Bioinformatics and the joy of puzzles
From Make Me Data Literate by Dr Linda McIver, Australian Data Science Education Institute
August 4, 2025
About this episode
Dr Sarah Beecroft discusses bioinformatics and the joy of solving puzzles in data science.
Dr Sarah Beecroft from Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre “it’s fun. Like you, you know, uncovering kind of the deeper insights, I think, which is quite interesting as well. You’re getting closer to the bigger story or the deeper story if you want to look at it that way. ” “you kind of need to like… Continue reading Sarah Beecroft on Bioinformatics and the joy of puzzles
People in this episode
Host: Dr Linda McIver
Guest: Dr Sarah Beecroft
Topics covered
- bioinformatics
- data science
- puzzles
- supercomputing
- insights
Keywords
- bioinformatics
- data science
- puzzles
- supercomputing
- insights
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
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