Part 2 of the 'A-NZ Capital Conference Tour'

Recently attended a conference in Wellington, New Zealand's capital. It was quite a different conference than I'm used to, since most people had no clue of what bioinformatics was, so it was quite different standing up in front of some serious statisticians and being the 'expert' on biology. Talk went surprisingly well. There were more questions at my talk than any other. Though, partly that was due to the fact that I had only 20 minutes to talk about it all, and I gave the talk in a 'memento' version (like the film 'Memento', where the plot is shown in reverse) -- so I talked about the data analysis first (since the audience were experts in the type of model I used), then talked about the data, then talked about how it was generated. I did this as an experiment to see if it could work. I'd say it was reasonably successful.

So .... Wellington is a strange but interesting place -- rains a lot, generally very windy. Very hilly, most houses are built into the side of a mountain. Some excellent cycling, if you're into either steep climbs or roads along the bay ... both of which I'm a fan of.

A shot of downtown Welly.


Some artwork along the bay.


A seaside suburb, very good spot to do some 1k intervals!


Hah, a cattery! I've never heard of one of these before, but they are everywhere!