written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-31 | tags: career development data science job hunt
I detail a number of topics that I think might be useful for aspiring data scientists to know.
Read on... (2591 words, approximately 13 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-24
I recently read a blog article by DataCamp's CTO (Dieter) on how to scale their projects and their engineering team - it's a great read! In the article, Dieter states... (read more)
(440 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-10 | tags: job hunt data science insight data science
Signed and done! I will be joining the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) in September, as part of the Scientific Data Analysis (SDA) team under Novartis Informatics (NX).
NIBR is the research arm of Novartis, and the SDA... (read more)
(193 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-02 | tags: data science open source gpu bayesian statistics
Open source software is awesome, and I've just been thoroughly convinced of why.
Today, I put in a PR to PyMC3. This was a bug fix related to the PyMC3 multinomial distribution's... (read more)
(483 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-22 | tags: bayesian deep learning data science
Sharing some thoughts on a Bayesian neural network that I just implemented.
Read on... (573 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-17
(a) Solving healthcare goes beyond solving the science underlying it.
At its core, healthcare delivery is essentially a human problem. Even what we choose to optimize for is a hard problem. Do we optimize for changing human... (read more)
(399 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-15 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
Aaand with that, week 7 of Insight is done!
I had a short week because of SciPy 2017, and I'm thankful that I got a chance to head out there - had the opportunity to reconnect with many friends from the SciPy community.
The two days... (read more)
(520 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-12 | tags: scipy conferences python
I just finished from SciPy 2017! This was a fruitful conference, and I'm glad I managed to make it.
Monday was the first day. I wanted to get a better feel for the Jupyter widgets ecosystem, and as such I sat in on the corresponding
written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-08 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
We had a short week this week because of the long July 4th weekend (Happy Birthday, America!).
Wednesday was my second demo day, this time at MGH. There were 8 of us demoing at MGH's Clinical DS team, and I really enjoyed the interaction... (read more)
(680 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-01 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
First off, Happy Canada Day!
Week 5 is primarily focused on interview prep as a bunch of us go out for our demos.
We kicked off Monday with an interview prep field day. The main areas of focus for us were CS fundamentals, machine... (read more)
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