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This morning, I attended the Geospatial Data tutorial. It wasn’t a filled lecture hall, but that was likely because the topic is a bit more specialized. That said, I think it was a tutorial with great content. Part of my own research work may... (read more)

I sat in the Bokeh/Blaze tutorial this afternoon. It was a challenging tutorial, but a good one nonetheless. I could tell that our tutorial leader, Christine, put in quite a bit of effort in preparing the... (read more)

This morning, I sat in the Cython tutorial by Kurt Smith, of Enthought, at SciPy 2015. We’re only halfway in at the time of starting the writing, but it has been a really useful tutorial!

Tutorial Content

Kurt has designed this... (read more)

Observation:

1. Humans like to measure things.
2. Humans also like to evaluate things.
3. Humans usually like to have only one metric for evaluations.

Example: Academic performance.

1. Performance is... (read more)
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On Monday, I gave my first ever lighting talk at the Boston Python meetup. Though I was kinda nervous right before the talk, overall, I found it to be really fun! My main message was that we should write tests for our data when doing data... (read more)

Yesterday, I decided to go for a 5K run on my own. This was a break from my usual routine (which is a routine, now that I’ve finished it at 4 regular intervals) - I solo’d it, rather than running with my running buddy Lin (I didn’t ask him ahead of... (read more)

1. Great turnout! People from everywhere - Conneticut, Michigan, Boston, Ukraine etc. Many companies as well.
2. Hiccups with the workshops.

On Talks

All-round mostly high quality talks. Favorites: Booz Allen... (read more)