How the Web is Democratizing Science + Optimizing Your Javascript App
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How the Web is Democratizing Science
Abigail has spent the past 6 years using the web to help researchers do science. The thing about the web is, it's open to everyone! While making tools to help scientists, we've coincidentally given anyone the power to access and analyze the same datasets. Research is no longer confined to the ivory tower of peer reviewed scientists. Anyone with an idea can test it out. We're beginning an age of democratized science.
This is where developers and computer scientists can have a huge mark on scientific discovery. Science is now facing problems that are particularly interesting to software developers. With better sensors, sequencers and methods, research groups are producing more data than they've been trained to handle. Problems we are used to, like data management, analysis and visualization, can be huge blockers to researchers.
This leaves us with the opportunity and skill to solve some of the most meaningful problems out there today. We're in a new era where science is using the web to be more collaborative. I write code to help solve problems that have a huge affect on our world. You can too.
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Optimizing Your Javascript App for Production with React and Webpack
Everyone’s heard that “React is fast”—but in the real world, optimizing for the right problems in your production environment can make all the difference. Do you primarily target mobile users? Would you benefit from using memoized selectors? Which of React’s built-in optimizations are right for you? I will discuss practical strategies and tools to help you make the right decisions for your project.
About the speakers:
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Abigail Cabunoc Mayes (@abbycabs (https://twitter.com/abbycabs))
Abigail is the lead developer of the Mozilla Science Lab, an initiative of the Mozilla Fo
undation working to make research collaborative, accessible and usable. She has led development on various open source science projects such as Contributorship Badges for Science, which awards badges to authors on academic papers, and WormBase, a central data repository for the model organism C. elegans. Before joining Mozilla, Abby worked as a bioinformatics software developer at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and at Michigan State University. With a background in bioinformatics and computer science, she builds tools that use the web to move science forward.
Check out Abby's github here (http://acabunoc.github.io/).
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Kate Hudson (@k88hudson (https://twitter.com/k88hudson))
Kate Hudson is a Firefox engineer at Mozilla. She’s passionate about making the web better with open source, and lately she’s been working on finding ways to use React and Redux to build new Firefox features.
Read Kate's blog here (http://blog.ibangspacebar.com).
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