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Staying Nimble

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)

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Thesis

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.

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"Default" Bayesian Models

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 (read more)

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Boston's Geospatial Data

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)

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Numba: My first attempt at being serious with it

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... (read more)

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Data Diagnostics: missingno

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 (read more)

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Verily Interview!

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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Building Bokeh Apps!

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-01-17

I finally did it - I built a Bokeh server app for myself!

All of last week, I brought my UROP student Vivian and a fellow church friend Lin to the "Data Science with Python" (read more)

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On Learning Math

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-01-05 | tags: data science education graduate school

Though I will admit to being somewhat algebra-blind (more on that later), I wasn't necessarily bad at math concepts. I did have one big problem with the way I was learning math, though - it always seemed to be more theoretical and less... (read more)

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On "Openness = Source Code Inspectability"

written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-01-03 | tags: open science open source peer review

One tenet of open science is the notion of "being able to inspect the source code". It's a good, lofty goal, but it comes with a big assumption that I think needs to be made clear.

This assumption is that scientists who are... (read more)

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