Analyst, not a coder

(aka how to be an effective researcher)

One of the biggest differences between our lab and

Motivation and context for a task

• One of the hardest things is a lack of context…

Output

• review your output

Writing

Tactical recommendations

mini-presentations

• Sometimes during a weekly meeting, we will ask you to give an update to the rest of the lab (not just the PI who has been supervising your ticket) of what you are working on and what you have learned. When we do this, we recommend that you practice in advance at least once. Before we give a presentation, we usually practice it five times. When we were starting out in our careers, we practiced even more often than this.