written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-03
This year at PyCon 2016, totally inspired by DB, I did the "hallway track".
What's the hallway track, you say? Basically, it means spending the majority of my time in the hallways of the conference,... (read more)
(318 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-01
Having learned more about the web dev/software engineering world over the past few years, I have become more curious about static sites. Speed and security were my main concerns; WordPress has given me issues in the past. I heard quite a bit about... (read more)
(190 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-31
In our Bible Study small group, I have found through empirical observation that when the group size is large (>5 people) and homogeneous (all guys/girls, all believers, all Bible study leaders), Bible study tends to be either too flat or too... (read more)
(558 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-29 | tags: pycon conferences python
In a flash, the PyCon 2016 tutorials are over!
My session on network analysis was on the first day, in the... (read more)
(496 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-22 | tags: odsc conferences data science
I had a ton of fun delivering a workshop on network analysis fundamentals at ODSC East yesterday! This is my bullet-point journal... (read more)
(319 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-20 | tags: academia feel good
Some good news: funding to try out a new idea :)
Read on... (220 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-16
Yesterday, I released PyFlatten to PyPI - it's a utility that can flatten nested data structures (e.g. list of lists; dictionaries of lists of tuples) into a single 1-by-N vector, while also... (read more)
(125 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-11
Finally, after ~2 years of learning, working, collaborating and writing, there's been a slew of papers from our research lab going out. Really happy to have finally contributed to our collective scientific knowledge, both through my own efforts and... (read more)
(272 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-11 | tags: scipy conferences python
This year, I had the privilege of serving on the SciPy (Scientific Python Conference) 2016 financial aid committee, and I will be headed to Austin, TX to present a tutorial on on fundamental and statistical network analysis.
In some ways,... (read more)
(160 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-04-07
The paper can be found here (preprint, freely available; accepted at PNAS and in press).
In no order of importance, here are the things I would tell myself to do from the... (read more)
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