written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-30 | tags: bokeh data science dashboarding
In this blog post, I will show how Bokeh featured in my Insight project, FluForecaster.
Read on... (893 words, approximately 5 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-24 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
Week 4 has been all about demos. Polishing our demos, picking companies that we want to demo at (and possibly interview at later on). Every morning, we practice our demos, 10 minutes per person, with the goal of keeping our demo to under 5 minutes... (read more)
(641 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-17 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
This week was a week of polishing our final products and getting them in shape for our demos. Pushing a product to final production really involves a lot of nitty-gritty tweaking. In this blog post, I'll detail some of what I had to work... (read more)
(474 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-10
Finally put on a funny hat and an oversized robe, and topped it off with a yellow hood that only six of us received last Friday. Just six in the entire Institute this year - only six of us weirdos chose the SciDoc (ScD) degree! (I chose it because... (read more)
(195 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-10 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
This week has been intense, mostly because I knew in advance that I'd be spending two days wearing a fancy hat, funky robe, and yellow sash. Because I was missing two days of Insight, I had to get my Minimum Viable Product (MVP) out by Wednesday -... (read more)
(571 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-02 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
Insight's Week 1 is done! Here's some of my thoughts so far.
Firstly, the Fellows at Insight is very fast at learning things. Everybody is either a PhD or MD, some have done post-doctoral work, and even fewer have become professors, but... (read more)
(355 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-05-22 | tags: pycon conferences python
A selection of my favourite talks and tutorials from PyCon 2017!
Read on... (888 words, approximately 5 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-05-21 | tags: pycon conferences python
This year's PyCon 2017 is over! Well, for me at least, as I head back to Boston, a place I've had to call home for the past 6 years.
I've noticed my Portland PyCons have felt different from my Montreal PyCons.
In Montreal, I felt more... (read more)
(477 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-05-15 | tags: grad school academia thesis defence
My thesis defence video is up on YouTube!
Read on... (68 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-05-13 | tags: pycon conferences data science
I'm very excited to be at PyCon! It's a bit of a personal challenge this year, as I'll be leading two tutorials, one on Network Analysis and one on Data Testing.
With a bit of time on hand, I've done a bit of introspection as to why I love... (read more)
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