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This week was a week of polishing our final products and getting them in shape for our demos. Pushing a product to final production really involves a lot of nitty-gritty tweaking. In this blog post, I'll detail some of what I had to work... (read more)

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)