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)
(512 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)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"
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)
(367 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)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)
(355 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-12-27 | tags: software engineering side projects flask python
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)
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