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)
(760 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-04-07 | tags: science graduate school influenza peer review
For the reader of a newly-published article, all that we see is precisely that - the article itself. We rarely get to hear about the back-story of that paper, or the choices that were made, the struggles involved, and the emotional ride taken. I... (read more)
(2576 words, approximately 13 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-03-29 | tags: reflections science one academia
Some reflections on my journey since finishing the Science One first-year program at UBC. It's been a winding journey to where I am now.
Read on... (1010 words, approximately 6 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-03-22
Today, I gave a webinar to the IRD and ViPR technical and advisory board meeting. There were a number of challenges to giving a webinar that I want to reflect on here, as a note to my future self and others who may read this entry. In contrast to... (read more)
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