About

Me
I’m Neil Saunders, based in Sydney, Australia. I work in data science; my most recent role was a data scientist in the New South Wales Government Department of Education.

Before that, I worked:

• as a data scientist with a healthcare technology start-up
• as a statistical bioinformatician with CSIRO
• as a research officer in computational biology in the Kobe lab at the University of Queensland
• as a bioinformatician working on microbial genome projects at the University of New South Wales
• as a molecular microbiologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• as a postgraduate student in biochemistry at the University of Oxford

You can find me on a few social networks though I’m less active now than I was in the golden age (2008).

Any opinions expressed here are mine, not those of my employer.

The blog
In general, I don’t go back and revise old posts. If you’ve come here via a Google search for PHP background processes, YouTube sound in Firefox or installing Ubuntu from a USB stick, be aware that these (and similar) posts are out of date and probably no longer relevant. Think about the date of the post before leaving a comment.

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