SciPy 2018 Talk Highlights

Posted on Sun 29 July 2018 in science • Tagged with science, python, education

Last year I gave a list of my favorite SciPy 2017 talks. The SciPy 2018 conference took place from July 9 to 15 and the talks and tutorials are now in a YouTube playlist created by Enthought. I have gone through all of this years talks and watched through any …


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SciPy 2017 Talk Highlights

Posted on Mon 17 July 2017 in science • Tagged with science, python, education

The full SciPy 2017 conference took place from July 10 to 16. The talks and tutorials are now live in a YouTube playlist created by Enthought. I have watched most of the available talks that seemed interesting from a materials science perspective, specifically talks geared towards building scientific packages and …


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Open-Source Learning

Posted on Tue 06 June 2017 in science • Tagged with education, science, python

New researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, spend much of their first 6 months to first year in their research group learning the techniques the lab uses to do their science. This is espeically true in computational fields, where there are numerous softwares (open- and closed-source) using in specific domains. Challenges …


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