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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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Yoga for Python

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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BAARN 2016 Bullet Point Notes

written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-16 | tags: conferences meeting notes

I attended the 2016 Boston Area Antibiotic Resistance Network meeting, held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Here’s my bullet-point notes version of what went on.

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Boston Area Antibiotic Resistance Network (BAARN) Meeting 2016

written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-16 | tags: conferences antibiotic resistance baarn 2016 genomic surveillance phenotypic surveillance machine learning tpot drug development incentives rapid detection viral detection bacterial detection susceptibility testing minion sequencer viral genotype phenotype prediction

Just attended the BAARN 2016 meeting and learned a lot! 🧪🔬 Discussed genomic and phenotypic surveillance, the economic challenges of antibiotic development, and the need for rapid detection of bacterial and viral infections. Also, shared thoughts on my current projects tying viral genotype to phenotype. 🧬🦠

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