Eric J Ma's Website
written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-12-01
This is the computational biologist who knows how to design, execute, and analyze wet lab experiments and the generated data. This is the wet lab scientist who knows how to develop software that crunches the massive amounts of data that her... (read more)
(614 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-11-10
One of two eBooks I bought to read on this trip to Vienna was "The Theory That Would Not Die". It was a good read, and I definitely have come to appreciate more the history behind Bayes' rule and its multiple deaths and... (read more)
(291 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-11-10
This trip & conference was a productive one! I'm glad I went for it and didn't have to miss out on much (even though WebJet/Turkish Airlines (still can't sort out which) messed up my initial flight booking big-time).
My biggest takeaways... (read more)
(462 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-11-06
At IMED 2016, I heard a lot of talks surrounding surveillance efforts. Most of it has been syndromic surveillance, because that's what's currently collectable. For digital disease surveillance, search queries (a marker of "interest" in a... (read more)
(829 words, approximately 5 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-11-05
Today (Day 1) was the day that talks and posters really started. Hackathon participants missed the first day, in which there was a plenary session of "high-level speakers". A bit of a pity to miss it, but that's okay - the hackathon was... (read more)
(536 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-11-04
Yesterday and today, I was at the IMED 2016 hackathon, jointly organized by Hacking Medicine at MIT and the International Society for... (read more)
(581 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-11-01
What a twist! A paper that I contributed to is behind a Wiley paywall.
(click on the... (read more)
(136 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-29 | tags: pycon conferences python
Registered for PyCon 2017, and tutorial & talk proposals submitted!
PyCon remains my favourite annual conference. What makes a conference great really is the people, and the PyCon community... (read more)
(196 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-28
Just got back reviewer comments for the 2nd attempt at an NIH R21 grant that I led the writing for. Reading the comments, I was at happy that the reviewers did at least read through how we addressed the first round's comments - you can never tell,... (read more)
(358 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-10-23 | tags: statistics data science
How we might make progress communicating statistics better.
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