Eric J Ma's Website

Finally put on a funny hat and an oversized robe, and topped it off with a yellow hood that only six of us received last Friday. Just six in the entire Institute this year - only six of us weirdos chose the SciDoc (ScD) degree! (I chose it because... (read more)

This week has been intense, mostly because I knew in advance that I'd be spending two days wearing a fancy hat, funky robe, and yellow sash. Because I was missing two days of Insight, I had to get my Minimum Viable Product (MVP) out by Wednesday -... (read more)

Insight's Week 1 is done! Here's some of my thoughts so far.

Firstly, the Fellows at Insight is very fast at learning things. Everybody is either a PhD or MD, some have done post-doctoral work, and even fewer have become professors, but... (read more)

This year's PyCon 2017 is over! Well, for me at least, as I head back to Boston, a place I've had to call home for the past 6 years.

I've noticed my Portland PyCons have felt different from my Montreal PyCons.

In Montreal, I felt more... (read more)

I'm very excited to be at PyCon! It's a bit of a personal challenge this year, as I'll be leading two tutorials, one on Network Analysis and one on Data Testing.

With a bit of time on hand, I've done a bit of introspection as to why I love... (read more)

This year, I'll be at PyCon 2017 presenting two tutorials and one talk! I'm very excited to be attending!

The first tutorial I will deliver is on network analysis. The GitHub repository is (read more)

I recently got around to hacking a system for managing my conda environments better. Previously, my coding projects mostly relied on one master environment (with exceptions, e.g. bokeh development, or my Network Analysis... (read more)

It is done! I have defended my doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Jonathan A. Runstadler, advised by Prof. Mark Bathe and Prof. Jukka-Pekka Onnela, conducted as a student in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT.

Looking back,... (read more)