written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-14 | tags: scipy conferences python
And we’re done! Two days of fun, intense, and hopefully mind-expanding tutorials at SciPy 2016.
I led two sessions of my network analysis workshop. Originally, I was only going to lead one session, and I thought I’d get a niche crowd and a... (read more)
(266 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-12
On Thursday, 7 July 2016, I attended a workshop on effective mentoring by Bruce Birren at the Broad Institute. Bruce is an experienced... (read more)
(862 words, approximately 5 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-06
Unlike my other two posts on leadership (Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of "The Shaping of an Effective Leader"), this one doesn't have a source from which I'm quoting. It comes more from experience.
There are many great qualities of great... (read more)
(163 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-04 | tags: reading notes leadership
Some of my notes from Chapter 2 of the book.
Read on... (329 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-30 | tags: productivity
How simple visual decluttering can helped me work more effectively.
Read on... (190 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-24 | tags: network analysis teaching education tutorials
I made a new logo for the Network Analysis Made Simple tutorial!
Read on... (96 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-22 | tags: data science open science
I found an awesome slide deck by Jake Vanderplas. It's a great case for doing science in the open; highly recommended.
Read on... (22 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-22 | tags: academia writing grad school
My tooling I used for academic plain-text writing. Mostly done for my paper, also for my thesis.
Read on... (947 words, approximately 5 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-21
Author: Gayle D. Beebe.
I’ll be putting together a series of blog posts as my book reading notes. This is the first of many more to come.
8 principles of leadership (pyramid). Ordered below from... (read more)
(445 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-17 | tags: network analysis tutorials conferences pycon
Prof. Allen Downey (Olin College) described my Network Analysis tutorial as being like yoga with Python.
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