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"# Lecture 1a: Welcome to BE/Bi 103 a\n",
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"Welcome to BE/Bi 103 a! In this first lecture, we begin our journey in training ourselves to do data analysis in the biological sciences."
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"## The cycle of science\n",
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"We start with a question. **What is the goal of doing (biological) experiments?** There are many answers you may have for this. Some examples:\n",
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"- To further knowledge.\n",
"- To test a hypothesis.\n",
"- To explore and observe.\n",
"- To demonstrate. E.g., to demonstrate feasibility.\n",
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"More obnoxious answers are\n",
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"- To graduate.\n",
"- Because your PI said so.\n",
"- To get data.\n",
"\n",
"This question might be better addressed if we zoom out a bit and think about the scientific process as a whole. Below, we have a sketch of the scientific processes. This cycle repeats itself as we explore nature and learn\n",
"more. In the boxes are milestones, and along the arrows in orange text are the tasks that get us to these milestones.\n",
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