This weekend's project was a fun one!

Update: Since the original post I made some more progress. I'm developing the code into my GitHub play/manifoldLearning repository. Below is from the README.

I'm working on a paper about Informtion Geometry.
The first step was an iPython notebook on Visualizing information …

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 …

Particle physicisits primarily use ROOT for the data analysis framework. Part of that framework is a package called RooFit statistical modeling and fitting package. I have contributed to this package and added a layer on top called RooStats that provides with statistical inference in both frequentist and Bayesian paradigms based …