Learn how Python is being used in research to understand the inner workings of the Earth.

This week, you'll meet Lindsay Hagee, a PhD student in geophysics at the University of British Columbia.

She shares how she's using Python to solve these computational problems, along with an amazing framework for viewing scientific writing itself through the lens of Python and open source.

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Lindsay, welcome to Talk Python. Thanks. Good to be here.

It's great to meet you. You're doing some really cool stuff in geophysics,

intersecting with Python. So I'm super excited to explore that with you today. But before we do,

let's get started with your story. How do you get into programming in Python? Most of that actually

was undergrad. So I really hadn't touched much computing until I started at university. I did my

undergrad in Edmonton at University of

Alberta. And it was in my first year that I sort of got introduced a bit to programming ideas,

but that was actually in Perl. So did programming look like a good thing you wanted to do? Or were you

like, whoa, what is this? It was more like, what is this? I mean, it was interesting to just like

start getting exposed to like the types of things you can automate to make your life a bit easier.

And so that was all that we had really done in the first year.

And then got a bit into C++ in my second year when I was starting in physics.

And that was intimidating for sure.

And then finally, actually, once I started getting much more into geophysics, we were all in Matlab.

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