written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-02-13 | tags: chalk talk public speaking research presentation influenza research broad institute seminar series audience interaction talk preparation slide decks whiteboard talk presentation skills feedback science communication infectious disease evolution
Yesterday, I shook things up at the Broad Institute's Infectious Disease Program seminar series by doing a chalk talk instead of a slide deck presentation. It was less stressful to prepare for, the audience was engaged, and I got some valuable feedback. 🎤🔬👥
I've learned a lot from this experience and I think chalk talks should become the norm again for research presentations. 📝💡
Read on... (426 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-02-09 | tags: data science software carpentry data carpentry
This past Monday, I led a hands-on session at the Broad Institute, showing how to use the scikit-learn API, as well as common coding patterns for running machine... (read more)
(489 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-12-03 | tags: influenza graduate school peer review thesis data science
I am happy to announce that, with my advisor's (Jon Runstadler, MIT) approval, I've uploaded my first 1st-author paper to BioRXiv. This may sound surprising, to document and write... (read more)
(1492 words, approximately 8 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-11-28
written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-09-28 | tags: data science drug resistance academia grad school
A blog post detailing how I built a model to predict drug resistance from HIV protease sequence.
Read on... (1390 words, approximately 7 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-09-03 | tags: data science deep learning neural networks
I have decided to link to my Jupyter notebook & github repository instead of re-writing the whole post here. I hope you enjoy it! :)
Read on... (24 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-08-18
When you think about software engineering skills, you probably don't think about the analytics types, or data scientist (DS) teams. This is a reasonable thought. Data scientists aren't in the business of building software, they're in the business... (read more)
(840 words, approximately 5 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-13 | tags: conferences scipy python
Conferences are made up of people, just like any other group of human beings grouping together.
What makes one differ from another really boils down to the people.
I read a tweet recently that described the SciPy 2015 conference as... (read more)
(116 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-13 | tags: scipy conferences python
The conference is over! I get to go home now, but I also will miss being a part of the community. Hope to go back next year!
written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-08 | tags: scipy conferences python
numpy arrays.nbgrader for...
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