written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-04-28
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)
(65 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-04-24 | tags: graduate school thesis defence
My thesis defence announcement has been made to the department!
written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-04-21 | tags: graduate school job hunt insight data science data science mit
It's my final week before defending my thesis.
The thesis has been submitted to my committee, and my slides, as usual, are being made until the last minute.
I've had a number of conversations with a number of people, both in person... (read more)
(532 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-04-07
As I wrap up grad school, one thought recurrently comes to mind: as we grow older, do we intrinsically lose mental agility, nimbleness and ability to learn? Or is it because of external factors that cause one to become less adventurous, less... (read more)
(191 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-03-28 | tags: thesis academia grad school
Some short thoughts on how I used "continual publishing" to enable a single-source, multi-output, continually-updated thesis.
Read on... (190 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-03-11
As a positive distraction from my thesis writing, I've been thinking a bit about the statistical crisis in biomedical sciences and psychology research, and how it might be mitigated.
A number of
written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-02-13
I finally did it!
The city of Boston recently released their data in the open. I wanted to have an excuse to play with geospatial data, so as a distraction from thesis & proposal writing, I hunkered... (read more)
(115 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-02-08 | tags: numba open source data science optimization coding snippets
This evening, I saw a Tweet about using numba, and I thought, it's about time I give it a proper shot. I had been solving some dynamic programming problems just for fun, and I thought this would be a good test case for...
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written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-02-06
Sometimes, all that you need is a visual cue on whether the data you have on hand are complete or not. Looking at a table can be dizzying at times, so I'm very glad I found this packaged called
written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-01-25
I have finished my first complete job interview! I'm happy for the experience, no matter what the result is, as it's a very eye-opening one. I've been in an ivory tower for quite a while, so going out and seeing what the experience like is... (read more)
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