Posts

Spatial Modelling 2 Lectures: Topics in Advanced Spatial Modelling

Mar 9, 2020

CUSP London, Exeter, and ASU

Feb 8, 2020

Columbia GSAPP Lecture Series

Nov 17, 2019

Disabling Technologies

Sep 19, 2019

Q-Step Festival & Geosilhouettes

Sep 10, 2019

Deep work and the reverse todo list

Jul 24, 2019

Open Code is Not Enough

Jul 15, 2019

Email Charter

Jun 17, 2019

Cenpy 1.0.0

Apr 8, 2019

Crunchtober

Oct 24, 2018

Who's Fixed?

Sep 13, 2018

The Geometer's Angle

Jul 30, 2018

Using lookahead testing

Jul 24, 2018

Perftesting

Jul 24, 2018

Challenge in Science

Apr 20, 2018

GISRUK I: CDRC Brexit Analysis Competition

Apr 18, 2018

GISRUK II: Spatially-Encouraged Spectral Clustering

#clustering

#preprints

#conference paper

#paper

#gisruk

#2018

Apr 4, 2018

Mpl Is Just Fine

Mar 18, 2018

Annoscatter

#python

Mar 12, 2018

Spatial Autocorrelation Functions

#spatial autocorrelation

#esda

#dissertation

#swing

#elections

Mar 9, 2018

Reverse-PCA for making sense of the typical structure in multivariate models

#statistics

# simulation

# machine learning

# geography

# brexit

# analysis

#imported

#image

Feb 28, 2018

I often find myself looking for spaces like those I used to like in Brooklyn or Phoenix

#imported

Feb 27, 2018

throwing in a spatially-correlated random effect may mess up the fixed effect you love - revisiting Hodges and Reich (2010) for SAR models

Feb 24, 2018

Does projection matter for compactness indices?

Feb 18, 2018

Finally making headway on Brexit Data

#imported

#image

Feb 15, 2018

this should probably be a tweet

#imported

Feb 13, 2018

running on all cores

#imported

#image

Jan 31, 2018

price clusters in airbnbs in brooklyn

#ml

# stats

# clustering

# brooklyn

# neighbourhoods

# neighborhoods

# airbnb

# price

# economics

# geography

# gis

#imported

#image

Jan 29, 2018

matplotlib.ion mode

#imported

#image

Aug 17, 2017

An article I’ll never get to write because my hypothesis was wrong.

#geography

# redistricting

#imported

Jul 18, 2017

the highest dimension scatter

#gerrymandering

# acadeimca

# dissertation

#imported

#image

Jul 5, 2017

Some thoughts on “Rise of the Thought Leader”

#long form

# thought leader

# intellectual

# academic

#imported

Jun 28, 2017

I am sure my dissertation would be finished

#imported

Apr 5, 2017

I guess I have code and math working now

#mathjax

# prettify.js

#imported

Mar 24, 2017

Spatial Econometric HMC in Python

#python

# spatial econometrics

# econometrics

# bayesian

# hmc

#imported

Mar 24, 2017

is my uptime excited or scared?

#uptime

#imported

#image

Mar 16, 2017

all those p-values will be lost in time

#bayes

# python

# geography

# statistics

# data science

#imported

#image

Feb 22, 2017

An update on PhD Burnout

#burnout

# phd

# graduate school

# grad school

#imported

Jan 5, 2017

A short exploration of the 2016 electoral swing

#elections

# politics

# programming

# python

# gis

# geography

#imported

Nov 29, 2016

Want to draw spatially-correlated values wihtout all the fuss?

#statistics

# geography

# spatial statistics

#imported

Nov 22, 2016

Working between python 2 and python 3

#python

#imported

Nov 18, 2016

Yet another elections simulator

#python

# foss

# academia

# programming

#imported

Oct 25, 2016

elections simulators

#dissertation

# python

#imported

#image

Oct 18, 2016

libsixel is real cool

#python

# graphics

# cli

#imported

#image

Oct 10, 2016

metropolis-within-gibbs

#statistics

# python

# bayes

#imported

#image

Oct 9, 2016

How one weird trick helps you evaluate correlated Normal distributions quickly

#python

# statistics

# computation

#imported

Oct 7, 2016

something's up with PyMC3's diagnostics...

#python

# r

# bayesian statistics

# bayes

# statistics

# geography

# gis

#imported

#image

Sep 29, 2016

The importance of centering variables

#geography

# statistics

# estimation

# markov chain monte carlo

# bayesian statistics

#imported

Sep 26, 2016

debugging the constituency level electoral archive

#politics

# clea

# dissertatino

#imported

#image

Sep 12, 2016

The joys of using political data

#imported

Aug 31, 2016

spatially-varying coefficients models

#bayesian statistics

# bayes

# geography

#imported

#image

Aug 28, 2016

Progress in (a) Human Geography

#imported

Aug 25, 2016

Formally Winding down GSOC

#gsoc

# python

#imported

Aug 17, 2016

spatially-varying components models are finally coming together

#bayes

# trace

# python

# geography

# spatial statistics

# statistics

#imported

#image

Aug 6, 2016

A Post-SciPy Chicago Update

#gsoc

# see i won't forget to tag it this time

# python

# gis

# development

# software

# geography

# statistics

#imported

Jul 25, 2016

Untitled

#phd

# academia

# burnout

# grad school

#imported

Jul 17, 2016

Using Soft Dependencies Effectively

#gsoc

# python

# pysal

# gis

#imported

Jul 12, 2016

Partially Applied classes with new

#gsoc

# python

# functional programming

# kind of

# but definitely not all the way

#imported

Jun 23, 2016

more on log determinants

#imported

#image

Jun 19, 2016

log deterimnants

#programming

# python

# bayesian statistics

# statistics

# geography

#imported

#image

Jun 17, 2016

but yet so far

#python

# bayesian computing

# statistics

#imported

#image

Jun 17, 2016

GSOC Call Notes, June 6 2016

#gsoc

# python

# geography

# pysal

# statistics

# grad school

#imported

Jun 6, 2016

The Beginnings of a new API

#gsoc

# python

# gis

# geography

# pysal

#imported

Jun 3, 2016

sampling distributions at each grid site

#geography

# statistics

# grad school

# python

# gis

#imported

#image

Jun 3, 2016

Call notes about my Request for Comment

#gsoc

# gis

# python

#imported

May 25, 2016

GSOC Introduction

#gsoc

# python

# gis

# geography

#imported

May 23, 2016

RFC for GSOC Feedback

#gis

# python

# spatial analysis

# geography

#imported

May 19, 2016

Puzzles about (mis)Replication

#science

# replicability

# geography

# statistics

# python

# programming

#imported

May 18, 2016

it's aliiiiiiiiive!

#science!

# grad school

# geography

# statistics

#imported

#image

May 17, 2016

Lit Review Habits

#imported

Apr 26, 2016

Bringing Classifiers Alive in PySAL

#python

# gis

# programming

# geography

#imported

Mar 24, 2016

yep, that's an image from within the terminal

#libsixel

# python

# programming

# gis

#imported

#image

Mar 23, 2016

reblogging from NPR

#imported

#image

Mar 11, 2016

A quick note on Hierarchical Linear Models

#statistics

# modelling

# grad school

#imported

Feb 22, 2016

Trivial Python Multiprocessing

#python

# multiprocessing

# gis

# geoprocessing

# geography

# tumblr markdown doesn't support codeblocks with returns?

#imported

Feb 16, 2016

A bite of a “free lunch” optimizing numerical routines in Python

#tanstaafl

# optimization

# python

# gis

# foss

# learning

# studyblr

#imported

Feb 16, 2016

one of my favorite diagrams

#studyblr

#imported

#image

Feb 9, 2016

A Tricky Bit Implementing Skyum’s Algorithm

#python

# gis

# computational geometry

# metaprogramming

# geometry

# geography

#imported

Jan 21, 2016

Trajectories & Transitions

#geography

# science

# politics

# political science

# gis

#imported

Jan 14, 2016

uggggggh

#gotta get the word out

#imported

#image

Jan 13, 2016

coverup and say goodnight

#cartodb

#imported

#image

Dec 17, 2015

The competence ceiling

#programming

# python

# gis

# geography

#imported

Dec 9, 2015

New York is very nice

#mapping

# gis

# consulting

#imported

Dec 2, 2015

The “Compilation Error”Reading Technical Articles

#math

# grad school

# academia

#imported

Oct 24, 2015

how we got here isn't the only way we could've gotten somewhere

#programming

# alan kay

# albert einstein

# pattern

# design patterns

#imported

#image

Oct 16, 2015

and bears, oh my

#python

# animals

# ci is a jerk

#imported

#image

Oct 9, 2015

Some realizations on FOSS-Governance

#numpy

# python

# scientific python

# gis

# geography

#imported

Oct 7, 2015

Two points in learning to program

#programming

# python

# metaprogramming

# gis

# geography

#imported

Oct 6, 2015

ah yes, I am in fact skilled in spatial autocorrelation

#this is a subject fetish

# not a skill

# what would that even mean?

#imported

#image

Oct 1, 2015

Things I remind myself always

#thank you janet franklin

# geography

# gis

# academia

#imported

Sep 18, 2015

First CartoDB map

#geography

# gis

# cartodb

# folium

# mapping

# cartography

# politics

#imported

Aug 26, 2015

On the subject of porting,

#python

# python 3

# gis

# geography

# porting

# python 2 to 3

# 2 to 3

#imported

Jul 30, 2015

and the dissertation begins in earnest

#seaborn

# politics

# political science

# political geography

# python

# gis

# geography

#imported

#image

Jul 29, 2015

Reflections on a hard-won win for PySAL

#python

# gis

# python 3

# py3k

# geography

# pysal

# statistics

# spatial analysis

#imported

Jul 27, 2015

compressing the entire census

#python

# compression

# unix

# tar

# census

# census data

# uscb

# geography

# gis

#imported

#image

Jul 27, 2015

I have written more code in the day after SciPy

#scipy2015

# all fired up typing in airplanes and busses

#imported

Jul 13, 2015

Gearing up for the last day of SciPy 2015

#scipy2015

# scipy

# python

#imported

Jul 12, 2015

Untitled

#and this is about as

# human geography

# as i get these days

# geography

# gis

# python

# github

# ssh

# publicity

# anonymity

# pseudonymity

# feminist software foundation

# tox

# identity

#imported

Jun 18, 2015

Cenpy Big Query

#python

# gis

# census

# uscb

# geography

# demographics

# social science

# grad school

# acs.r

#imported

Jun 16, 2015

business in the front, party distributed across 32 backs

#mullets

# i know it's not the right spelling

# multiprocessing

# python

# gis

# geography

# foss

#imported

#image

Jun 12, 2015

Cenpy is now pip installable!

#census

# data

# data hacking

# python

# geography

# gis

# api

#imported

Jun 11, 2015

“Maybe the Shapefile was right after all” is right after all

#geometry

# geography

# gis

# python

# wkt

# simplefeatures

# geojson

# ogc

#imported

Jun 6, 2015

Untitled

#python

# census

# us census bureau

# civic hacking

# api

# geography

#imported

Jun 5, 2015

Pip bug

#pip

# python

# debian

#imported

May 23, 2015

My (summer) Job, SF, and Gitter + IRC

#irc

# gitter

# github

# sf

# san francisco

# bernal heights

# geography

#imported

May 23, 2015

Happy GeoHacking

#geospatial

# gis

# python

#imported

May 19, 2015

there really is a big difference vis. scipy/numpy random sampling

#python

# speed comparisons

# this is ridic

# numpy masterrace

#imported

#image

Jan 27, 2015

And what did we learn today, kids?

#imported

Nov 21, 2014

It's funny how a little math can simplify a function call

#imported

Oct 29, 2014

Making Sense of NMMI

#math

# geography

# politics

# political science

# gerrymandering

# compacness

#imported

Oct 29, 2014

Untitled

#normal equations don't mean shit

# give me ml or give me death

# statistics

# social science

# engineering

#imported

Oct 23, 2014

Voronoi Gripes

#gis

# pysal

#imported

Oct 1, 2014

About the voronoi diagram problem

#bug

# qgis

# voronoi

# gis

# foss

#imported

Oct 1, 2014

vornoi bugs

#computing

# academia

# qgis

# gis

# open source

# oss

# foss

# geography

# grad school

#imported

#image

Sep 30, 2014

Some New Realizations on Oooooold Material

#spatial autocorrelation

# geography

# mathematics

# statistics

# spatial analysis

# grad school

# academia

#imported

Sep 26, 2014

A Short Realization on Gelman-King (1994)

#politics

# bayesian statistics

# bayes

# elections

# electoral analysis

# statistics

#imported

Sep 12, 2014

I got worse at R

#r

# scientific computing

# data

# data wrangling

# factor issues

# computing

#imported

#image

Aug 22, 2014

whyyyyy do we not use package managers everywhere?

#programming

# python

# package management

# software griping

#imported

#image

Jun 17, 2014

Going to Scipy 2014

#scientific python

# scipy

# austin

# texas

# python

# academia

# scientific computing

#imported

May 29, 2014

the eternal return (to vim)

#computers

# coding

# programming

#imported

#image

May 8, 2014

I'm sorry, what's your suggested change?

#glitch

# memory issues

# microsoft word for mac

# microsoft

# mac

#imported

#image

May 1, 2014

flows are blue, always

#maps

# cartography

# notes to self

# maxflow

# mincut

# optimization

#imported

#image

Apr 29, 2014

gotta wonder whether her parents were just having a laugh

#frere jacques

# farrah jacquez

# academe

# google scholar

# citation

# health

# research

#imported

#image

Apr 23, 2014

Answer keys that simply tell you

#math

# statistics

# answer keys

#imported

Apr 16, 2014

same as it ever was

#institutional design

# coding

# sandbox

#imported

#image

Apr 9, 2014

the spring break wanter has logged on

#personal

# my face

# me

#imported

#image

Mar 7, 2014

Modified an existing ASU beamer template

#latex

# tex

# beamer

# asu

# academia

# grad school

#imported

Mar 5, 2014

Welcome Week Tips

#academia

# graduate school

# ph.d.

# college

#imported

Mar 3, 2014

starting to learn julia

#julia

# julialang

# academia

# scientific computing.

# statistics

# spatial analysis

# shapefiles

# text editors

# editor wars are so silly!

#imported

#image

Feb 27, 2014

Untitled

#imported

Feb 24, 2014

first simple program in julia- a greedy knapsack

#julia

# programming

# optimization

# graduate school

# academia

# geography

# operations research

# college

# julialang

#imported

#image

Feb 20, 2014

went crawling back into workflowy's arms today

#open source

# workflowy

# hackflowy

# academia

# prodcutivity

# outline

#imported

#image

Feb 13, 2014

remain in light

#imported

#image

Feb 8, 2014

Time Management or Fortitude

#graduate school

# academia

# work

# time management

# undergraduate

# college

# university

# school

# classes

#imported

Feb 6, 2014

whew.... first "thing" sent off in grad school

#academia

# graduate school

# grad school

# school

# anxiety

# nervousness

# nerves

# adorno

# nervous

# modernity

# geography

#imported

#image

Feb 4, 2014

On Perpsective

#academia

# geography

# optimization

# math

# graduate school

# grad school

#imported

Feb 3, 2014

Initialization

#geography

# math

# statistics

# computation

# academia

# grad school

# graduate school

# ph. d.

# arizona state

# asu

# university

# college

#imported

Feb 2, 2014

Posts

Spatial Modelling 2 Lectures: Topics in Advanced Spatial Modelling

CUSP London, Exeter, and ASU

Columbia GSAPP Lecture Series

Disabling Technologies

Q-Step Festival & Geosilhouettes

Deep work and the reverse todo list

Open Code is Not Enough

Email Charter

Cenpy 1.0.0

Crunchtober

Who's Fixed?

The Geometer's Angle

Using lookahead testing

Perftesting

Challenge in Science

GISRUK I: CDRC Brexit Analysis Competition

GISRUK II: Spatially-Encouraged Spectral Clustering

Mpl Is Just Fine

Annoscatter

Spatial Autocorrelation Functions

Reverse-PCA for making sense of the typical structure in multivariate models

I often find myself looking for spaces like those I used to like in Brooklyn or Phoenix

throwing in a spatially-correlated random effect may mess up the fixed effect you love - revisiting Hodges and Reich (2010) for SAR models

Does projection matter for compactness indices?

Finally making headway on Brexit Data

this should probably be a tweet

running on all cores

price clusters in airbnbs in brooklyn

matplotlib.ion mode

An article I’ll never get to write because my hypothesis was wrong.

the highest dimension scatter

Some thoughts on “Rise of the Thought Leader”

I am sure my dissertation would be finished

I guess I have code and math working now

Spatial Econometric HMC in Python

is my uptime excited or scared?

all those p-values will be lost in time

An update on PhD Burnout

A short exploration of the 2016 electoral swing

Want to draw spatially-correlated values wihtout all the fuss?

Working between python 2 and python 3

Yet another elections simulator

elections simulators

libsixel is real cool

metropolis-within-gibbs

How one weird trick helps you evaluate correlated Normal distributions quickly

something's up with PyMC3's diagnostics...

The importance of centering variables

debugging the constituency level electoral archive

The joys of using political data

spatially-varying coefficients models

Progress in (a) Human Geography

Formally Winding down GSOC

spatially-varying components models are finally coming together

A Post-SciPy Chicago Update

Untitled

Using Soft Dependencies Effectively

Partially Applied classes with __new__

more on log determinants

log deterimnants

but yet so far

GSOC Call Notes, June 6 2016

The Beginnings of a new API

sampling distributions at each grid site

Call notes about my Request for Comment

GSOC Introduction

RFC for GSOC Feedback

Puzzles about (mis)Replication

it's aliiiiiiiiive!

Lit Review Habits

Bringing Classifiers Alive in PySAL

yep, that's an image from within the terminal

reblogging from NPR

A quick note on Hierarchical Linear Models

Trivial Python Multiprocessing

A bite of a “free lunch” optimizing numerical routines in Python

one of my favorite diagrams

A Tricky Bit Implementing Skyum’s Algorithm

Trajectories & Transitions

Partially Applied classes with new