Quantitative Life Sciences Initiative: Dr. Jennifer Clarke

This episode of Streaming Science features, Dr. Jennifer Clarke, the Director of the Quantitative Life Sciences Initiative (QLSI) at the University of Nebraska Lincoln interviewed by AESC undergraduate student, Hannah Borg. QLSI is a faculty-led initiative to develop research and educational opportunities in data science for the life sciences. Have you ever heard the term ‘big data’ and didn’t really know exactly what it is? This is the podcast for you then. Dr. Clarke and Hannah Borg dive deeper into what ‘big data’ is and even what does ‘big data’ look like? Also, Dr. Clarke talks about what QLSI is doing and how it is helping production agriculture among other subjects like how is she changing the traditional stereotype of a scientist.