Despite the reputation of 2016 as a terrible year, it was pretty good for me on a personal and professional level. Many of the ideas that were born during my sabbaticall matured this year. Many of my collaborations also flourished.
The year started with a bang …
more ...Earlier this week I joined the Reproducibility Symposium at NYU. It was an interesting workshop/unconference with a great group of people. A huge thanks to Vicky Steeves and Juliana Freire that organized the event.
It started with some nice talks by Jake VanderPlas and Katy …
more ...After a colloquium at Renaissance Technologies and sitting on Daniel Foreman-Mackey's thesis defense I gave a fun talk for the inagural NYC Open Science Meetup sponsored by authorea.
more ...Our NYC #OpenScience meetup yesterday: @KyleCranmer showing how to detect Cosmic Rays on your smartphone pic.twitter.com/SA18UPTXvh
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I'm pretty excited about the Recast reintepretation framework. The basic idea is that we want to capture the data processing pipeline associated with a search for new physics and then provide an API to it (original paper ). This will allow scientists outside the big LHC collaborations to request that a …
more ...I'm just finishing an intense and exciting week focusing a lot on the role of software and data in science. The big event was a workshop on Indexing Astronomical Software jointly organized by AAS and GitHub and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It was a small workshop with …
more ...This week NYU hosted a Software Carpentry Bootcamp along with Berkeley and U. Washington (the other institutes in the Moore-Sloan data science environment). I sat in on the python classes (there were also classes in R). However, on Monday, there was a huge announcement from the BICEP2 collaboration about the …
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