Apr 10, 2016 — Visualizations, Contain yourselves! — Visualizing things is really challenging. The reason is because it’s relatively easy to make a visualization that is too complex for what it’s trying to show, and it’s much harder to make a visualization catered for a specific analysis problem.... Read more

Feb 19, 2016 — Wordfish: tool for standard corpus and terminology extraction — If pulling a thread of meaning from woven text is that which your heart does wish. Not so absurd or seemingly complex, if you befriend a tiny word fish. I developed a simple tool for standard extraction of terminology and... Read more

Jan 24, 2016 — So Badly — I want it so badly, I can’t breathe. The last time I had this feeling was right after interviewing at Stanford. My heart ached for the realization that the opportunity to learn informatics was everything I had ever wanted, and... Read more

Jan 15, 2016 — The Academic Software Developer — To say that I have very strong feelings about standards and technology used in academic research would be a gross understatement. Our current research practices and standards for publication, sharing of data and methods, and reproducible science are embarrassingly bad,... Read more