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SciPy 2016 Hallway Track

written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-16 | tags: scipy conferences python

Like PyCon 2016, I ended up doing the Hallway Track at SciPy 2016, which really meant hanging out in the hallway, talking with people, fixing code bugs, and... (read more)

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SciPy 2016 Tutorials

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)

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Getting the Most out of Mentoring

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)

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Leaders Provide Safe Zones to Fail

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... (read more)

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The Shaping of an Effective Leader: Chapter 2

written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-04 | tags: reading notes leadership

Some of my notes from Chapter 2 of the book.

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Productivity Hack: Get Rid of Visual Clutter

written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-30 | tags: productivity

How simple visual decluttering can helped me work more effectively.

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New Network Analysis Logo!

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!

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In Defence of Extreme Openness

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.

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Tooling up for Plain Text Academic Writing in Markdown

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.

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The Shaping of an Effective Leader: Chapter 1

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.

Introduction

8 principles of leadership (pyramid). Ordered below from foundation to... (read more)

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