Overview

This winter, I decided to embark on a coding project purely for fun. In preparation to build my own Raspberry Pi photo display, I wanted to build an easily-installable, portable (across operating systems) and completely hackable... (read more)

So you've written this awesome Python module/script that does awesome stuff, but now you want to call it from the command line. I'm going to show you how to make this happen.

First off, create your Python script. Below, borrowing from the (read more)

For real. Read on for the statistical perspective on why.

I saw this article published by JAMA, posted by a number of my friends on Facebook. The claim here was that patients treated by women doctors show lower readmission rates than... (read more)

I've been playing a ton with GitHub pages recently, and so far, I've been impressed! My main use case has been in creating places where I can host Reveal.js slides online, and showcasing some writing that I've put together that doesn't fit in my... (read more)

Today on Facebook, I saw a link shared by the friend of a professor at Berkeley whose group I nearly joined 6 years ago. (Life would have been very different if I did.) It was a link to a (read more)

This is the computational biologist who knows how to design, execute, and analyze wet lab experiments and the generated data. This is the wet lab scientist who knows how to develop software that crunches the massive amounts of data that her... (read more)

One of two eBooks I bought to read on this trip to Vienna was "The Theory That Would Not Die". It was a good read, and I definitely have come to appreciate more the history behind Bayes' rule and its multiple deaths and... (read more)

This trip & conference was a productive one! I'm glad I went for it and didn't have to miss out on much (even though WebJet/Turkish Airlines (still can't sort out which) messed up my initial flight booking big-time).

My biggest takeaways... (read more)

At IMED 2016, I heard a lot of talks surrounding surveillance efforts. Most of it has been syndromic surveillance, because that's what's currently collectable. For digital disease surveillance, search queries (a marker of "interest" in a... (read more)

Today (Day 1) was the day that talks and posters really started. Hackathon participants missed the first day, in which there was a plenary session of "high-level speakers". A bit of a pity to miss it, but that's okay - the hackathon was... (read more)