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August 22-23, 2017: Training
August 23-25, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Laurent Gautier

Laurent Gautier
Science and Engineering, Verily

Laurent Gautier is a scientific research lead at Verily Life Sciences (fka Google Life Sciences). Laurent’s work focuses on data science, visualization, machine learning, data mining, and prototyping software to understand molecular, cellular, and clinical data. He is the author of popular open source tools in bioinformatics and statistical programming for applications in healthcare, life sciences, and beyond and has contributed to or led a number of open source projects, including Bioconductor, affy, and rpy2.

Sessions

9:00am–12:30pm Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Usage and application
Location: Concourse F Level: Intermediate
Laurent Gautier (Verily)
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Python is popular for data analysis, but restricting yourself to Python means missing a wealth of libraries or capabilities available in R or SQL. Laurent Gautier walks you through a pragmatic, reasonable, and good-looking polyglot approach, all thanks to R visualizations. Read more.