Posted on Mon 26 October 2015 in Tutorials • Tagged with Grad School, persistence, resilience
Comparison is the theif of Joy. ~ Sofia Kovalevskaya
CUNY Graduate Center Executive Officer and Distinguished Professor Robert Haralick came to visit the Computer Science club at John Jay last Thursday. His nominal topic was graduate school applications. More than 40 students …
Posted on Mon 27 July 2015 in Tutorials • Tagged with Free Software
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. ~ Sofia Kovalevskaya
Linked below is an excellent but long presentation on the gaps in minority achievement in mathematics and the reasons for their persistence from the Mathematical Association of America …
Posted on Wed 01 April 2015 in Tutorials • Tagged with Emacs, pdf, meta-cognition
We all have to complete tutorials to learn new languages. One constant pain is that the tutorials are usually trapped in pdf's when we need to type code. Emacs makes this problem go away through its doc-view mode which allows you to render pdf's in Emacs. The problem …
Posted on Sat 07 March 2015 in Tutorials • Tagged with Emacs, skewer-mode, javascript, d3.js, debugging
When someone says: 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done', give him a lollipop. ~Alan J. Perlis
Javascript can be notoriusly difficult to debug if you are coming from a language with tight degugger integration like C/C++ or Java …
Posted on Sat 27 December 2014 in Tutorials • Tagged with Emacs, homebrew, Mac, OS X, Mavericks, Darwin
My switch to the Mac meant that I was making more typing mistakes and on one them I was always getting to Emacs to freeze. I looked like this:
I switched to the Mac last summer. I was given one for work. I would never buy one …
Posted on Mon 03 November 2014 in Tutorials • Tagged with Emacs, reproducibility, open-science
On November 3, I gave a talk at the Emacsnyc meetup on reproducible research. I will get a link to the presentation up soon.
You can view the presentation:
And here is the github:
http://github.com/EvanMisshula/rr" target="\blank\">rr repo
Posted on Wed 14 May 2014 in Tutorials • Tagged with Emacs, emacs-ipython-notebook, ipython, tutorial
On May 5, I gave a lightning talk at the Emacsnyc meetup on the state of the Emacs IPthon notebook. A big thank you to Eric from http://emacsnyc.org for his extraordinary linux vs audio-visual equipment efforts.
Posted on Mon 20 January 2014 in Tutorials • Tagged with Python, environments, virtualization, ubuntu
Posted on Fri 12 July 2013 in Tutorials • Tagged with emacs, python, IPython, Rstats, ESS
Back in 2009, one of the first advantages that made me play around with Emacs again when I went back to graduate school was Emacs-Speaks-Statistics. It allowed me to avoid the pain of using the R-console which was frankly a miserable experience. The deficiencies of that interface …
Posted on Tue 25 June 2013 in Tutorials • Tagged with big data, Emacs, emacs-ipython-notebook, ipython, programmer-humor, configuration, emacs, IPython, linux, statistics
It was this week during the project pitch exercise here at the Data Science For Social Good that I fell down a rabbit hole. I wanted to get summary statistics on foreclosures and land values for each of Chicago's 50 wards. Of course I was not doing that when …
Posted on Tue 25 June 2013 in Tutorials • Tagged with Emacs, IPython, virtual env, linux
Most of the time you read about setting up virtual environments, it is for web development. But the same benefits hold for analysis and research software. You want to be able to reproduce results. It also increases security not to be adding all the unverified libraries with machine level privileges …
Posted on Mon 24 June 2013 in Tutorials • Tagged with Emacs, emacs-ipython-notebook, ipython, tutorial
The Emacs package system is far from perfect. The most proficient users of Emacs are unaffected by this flaw. Many users of Emacs are experts who live at the bleeding edge of the linux kernel and gcc compiler. This guide is for the mere mortals who have used Emacs …
Posted on Tue 02 April 2013 in Tutorials • Tagged with D3, Django, linux
It is no secret that I have been working on delivering d3 over django. I am a novice to both of these technologies, I have been scouring the internet for FREE resources. Of what I have found. Here are my impressions. On Django, there seem to be few full tutorials …
Posted on Sat 02 February 2013 in Tutorials • Tagged with configuration, docview, emacs, internet pedagogy, linux, statistics, windows
This is my first blog post using the IPython notebook. I am very excited about the things it can do.
I am …
Posted on Wed 02 January 2013 in Tutorials • Tagged with Emacs, org-mode, reproducible research
So I was able to get this to post to my blog. However I was not able to get it to work here. Since then, to my surprise I have found myself working less with the visually amazing, but temperamental iPython and more with Emacs org-mode.
The ability to toggle …
Posted on Thu 02 December 2010 in Tutorials • Tagged with software, justice
This is the first issue so it is worth saying what I would like to cover. I am interested in increasing labor market participation and public safety. I believe that this is done through life long learning and remediation. I am particularly interested in using mathematics to decide what is …