I just listened to a very thought provoking and insightful talk by @gvwilson on Software Design for Data Scientists.
Some key takeaways that I am going to try to build into my courses this year from it in this 🧵
1. I am going to get students to read and critique more of other people's code. I already do a bit of peer review, but I am going to have them review more professionally/expert written code at different stages of development/refactoring.
Sep 24, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I think I've figured out my online teaching strategy... I describe in this thread:
1. I create ~ 45 min of pre-recorded lectures, on 3 themes, ~ 15 min per theme. Students watch these before lecture.
Aug 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What I want my dinner cooking pov to be like:
What it's actually like:
Aug 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Life for me went back to fairly normal in early June when I got childcare back. Everyday since then I have felt grateful &guilty - I know others have not been so lucky.
Today my kiddo woke up with a cough. Luckily we had a super speedy negative COVID test in #Vancouver#BC. 1/2
However, we have no childcare again until symptoms resolve. This has been an emotional day, and a stark reminder of the "new normal" of our lives. That we need to plan ahead, and have strong supportive work networks that let us attend to family and health when we need to. 1/3
Jul 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Has any R/Python mixers successfully used tinytex with jupyter nbconvert for converting .ipynb to pdf? Trying to simplify the @UBCMDS#DataScience install stack...
OK, it's possible! I just need to install a bunch of other LaTeX pacakges... Apparently you need many more packages to convert the same markdown text and inline LaTeX math formulas in jupyter than in Rmd... 🤷♀️
Jun 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
I am hiring two #postdoctoral fellows in #DataScience#Education. One position is to teach in the @UBCMDS grad program, another is to help develop undergrad courses @UBC. We are building a passionate & excellent #DataScience educator team here, join us!
Huge thanks to @gvwilson for giving an extremely useful & awesome talk on how to run efficient (remote) meetings to our @UBCMDS students at the capstone project kickoff. This skill is going to help them swim during this final course of their degree (& in their work beyond)!
Our @UBCMDS students also had a simply excellent Q&A session with @JennyBryan today on how to do collaborative software development when working remotely. Another essential for collaborative data science work in our modern #pandemic era.
Mar 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hey #rstats folks - what is the most recent count for CRAN packages? Is there a recent time series plot of this?
answering my own question here, I think this one shows what I want to show (source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…):
Jan 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Are you writing something that involved using #rstats and/or an #rstats package? If so, don't forget to cite it! How? See this blog post to get you started: blopig.com/blog/2013/07/c…
.#python folks - is there an equivalent easy tool in for the Python language and package citations?
Sep 13, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I am learning the ins and outs of user permissions, sudo, su, etc on a server right now. This is what I feel like the server is telling me as I learn:
Many times this week through this process I have been brought to the feeling of "I can't do this". But I keep remembering I have been through this stage of learning before and I can do it again. #PhDpersistance helps here.
Sep 9, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For our DSCI 100 (Introduction to Data Science course) the entire teaching team is developing our materials together in a JupyterHub with a custom docker container we maintain. The students also complete their work in the same docker container on a JupyterHub. 1/2
There is a lot more upfront work to set this up, HOWEVER, the payoff is HUGE! Once set up, things just seem to always work 😂
Jul 7, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I didn't know you can use #rstats to make #reproducible conference posters! Cool and useful! Would love to see some examples!
The 3rd cohort of @UBC Master of #DataScience students finished their program yesterday. It was a pleasure to meet and teach them all. I am excited to see what they do in their Data Science futures.
Here we all are celebrating last night:
Jun 3, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I find this very concerning: "The gender imbalance in AI is greater than in CS overall, and that’s a big problem" by Mark Guzdial
1. Workshops targeted specifically for women and minorities? 2. A slack workspace (similar to the RLadies workspace) as a place for women and minorities to connect and discuss AI?
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