written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-29 | tags: pycon conferences python
Registered for PyCon 2017, and tutorial & talk proposals submitted!
PyCon remains my favourite annual conference. What makes a conference great really is the people, and the PyCon community... (read more)
(196 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-28
Just got back reviewer comments for the 2nd attempt at an NIH R21 grant that I led the writing for. Reading the comments, I was at happy that the reviewers did at least read through how we addressed the first round's comments - you can never tell,... (read more)
(358 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-23 | tags: statistics data science
How we might make progress communicating statistics better.
Read on... (695 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-18 | tags: hobbies 3d printing
Who would have thought that making stuff could be so fun? (Particularly when the tediousness of actually building it is removed!) I think that the 3D printer I just bought for the lab might really open up new doors for us.
We have the
written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-16
Just found out about OpenTrons, which is a company that produces open source robotic liquid handlers for less than $5000. In terms of research budgets, this is amazing!
While some may contend that... (read more)
(178 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-12
It's been about 2 months since starting up with the GitHub lab notebooks for a project that I'm coordinating. Here's some thoughts on it.
Firstly, version control... (read more)
(377 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-11
I just saw an awesome pair of blog posts by Roger Peng and
written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-09 | tags: reproducibility data science
I found this set of slides by Lorena Barba: the Reproducible PI Manifesto. I love it, and I hope other PIs take it up!
Read on... (24 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-08
I've been thinking back on my experience being on the SciPy 2016 Financial Aid committee, having myself received a full scholarship to attend SciPy 2015.
I had a chance to talk with two of the SciPy scholarship recipients. They belonged to a... (read more)
(258 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-09-27 | tags: data visualization data science
Which would you choose? Let's figure out which might be more useful.
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