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New Habits

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-10-03

Ever since "going corporate", it's meant picking up more new productivity/coding habits. Here's a sampling of what I've learned.

(1) Living by my calendar

Basically, the "work calendar" defines everything about the... (read more)

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Visualize Large Datasets by Sampling

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-09-14

Just a little tip, putting it here for myself and others in case it helps.

Sometimes, you need to visualize a large dataset, but it takes a ton of time to render it or compute the necessary transforms.

If your samples are... (read more)

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nano text editor hacks

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-09-11 | tags: programming nano text editor coding snippets

Much as I've embraced the Atom text editor, there are times when the GUI isn't accessible to us, and we are forced to use a Terminal-based text editor.

Now, I'm not one of those crazy types who use emacs or vim... (read more)

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What would be useful for aspiring data scientists to know?

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-31 | tags: career development data science job hunt

I detail a number of topics that I think might be useful for aspiring data scientists to know.

Read on... (2583 words, approximately 13 minutes reading time)
Reading & Writing Docs: The Overlooked Programming Skill?

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-24

I recently read a blog article by DataCamp's CTO (Dieter) on how to scale their projects and their engineering team - it's a great read! In the article, Dieter states... (read more)

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Next Steps

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-10 | tags: job hunt data science insight data science

Signed and done! I will be joining the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) in September, as part of the Scientific Data Analysis (SDA) team under Novartis Informatics (NX).

NIBR is the research arm of Novartis, and the SDA... (read more)

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Open Source Software

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-02 | tags: data science open source gpu bayesian statistics

Open source software is awesome, and I've just been thoroughly convinced of why.

Today, I put in a PR to PyMC3. This was a bug fix related to the PyMC3 multinomial distribution's... (read more)

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Bayesian Neural Networks

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-22 | tags: bayesian deep learning data science

Sharing some thoughts on a Bayesian neural network that I just implemented.

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Lessons Learned During Insight

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-17

(a) Solving healthcare goes beyond solving the science underlying it.

At its core, healthcare delivery is essentially a human problem. Even what we choose to optimize for is a hard problem. Do we optimize for changing human... (read more)

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Insight Week 7

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-15 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt

Aaand with that, week 7 of Insight is done!

I had a short week because of SciPy 2017, and I'm thankful that I got a chance to head out there - had the opportunity to reconnect with many friends from the SciPy community.

The two days... (read more)

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