written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-08-06 | tags: python bayesian variational inference pymc3 statistics data science
Following on the heels of me recently attending Thomas Wiecki's Boston Bayesians talk, I decided to put up a notebook showing a lightweight example of how to do Bayesian modelling with PyMC3. Comments are welcome!
The notebook can be found... (read more)
(96 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-28
Graduate school has taught me the importance of being able to learn almost anything, and to learn that thing as quickly as possible. I think that's an important skill to have in life.
(Ironically, it's taken me much of 5 years, now going on... (read more)
(96 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-27
I recently have been trying out the Atom text editor for writing. While its load times are slower than Sublime Text, it overall is a solid text editor. Being free doesn't... (read more)
(460 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-24 | tags: data science python sparse matrix linear algebra
Sparse matrix multiplication shows up in many places, and in Python, it's often handy to use a sparse matrix representation for memory purposes.
One thing nice about the newest version of Python 3 is the @ operator, which takes...
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written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-19
Jupyter Lab was announced at SciPy 2016! And oh my, this is an exciting development.
It currently is a very alpha-stage project, and so it didn't work on my Mac, but it worked beautifully... (read more)
(291 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-16 | tags: nxviz data visualization data science software engineering
I have been developing network visualization implementations for Python, mostly because I needed them. I also believe in open source principles, that broadly useful and applicable code should be made freely available with their implementations made... (read more)
(229 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-07-16 | tags: data visualization data science nxviz graph visualization network science
I use networks as part of my research,
and visualization is a very important part of it.
The problem with network visualizations is that most people
default to node-link diagrams that end up looking like
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)
(828 words, approximately 5 minutes reading time)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)
(281 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)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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