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Brief History of Probability Notes

notes

probability

statistics

Tuesday September 3rd, the first day of our semester, I needed to cover teaching for our professor teaching BST/BIOSTATS 230 Probability I, so as part of that I got to…

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Bhramar Mukherjee’s Marvin Zelen Award Talk

talks

statistics

This last Thursday (May 9th, 2024), Bhramar Mukherjee received the annual Marvin Zelen Award from the Harvard Biostatistics Department.

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Our Trip to Seattle

photography

travel

Seattle was so much fun! I don’t know how on Earth we did so much in just two days, but we did.

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Scale (Zoom) Dependent Maps with Leaflet in R

geography

mapping

R

programming

data-science

Something I’ve wanted to accomplish for a while is producing interactive maps in R that provide a higher level of resolution as the user zooms in.

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The first offering of ID529 Data Management and Analytic Workflows in R at Harvard

teaching

Teaching ID529 was such a blast, and I’m so happy with how the course turned out. The students have repeatedly communicated that they learned an extraordinary amount, that…

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Relationship of political ideology of US federal and state elected officials and key COVID pandemic outcomes

publications

Now that our paper is out in the Lancet Regional Health Americas, I wanted to write up a blog post talking about it.

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The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project 2.0

research

teaching

The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project 2.0 was a workshop where my colleagues and I trained 150 Public Health professionals from diverse backgrounds (city and state…

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2021 in Review

yearly-review

photography

publications

I couldn’t really talk about 2021 without mentioning that I got married in June 2021!

Boston Night Skyline

photography

I just wanted to share this really nice photo I took of the Boston skyline in the last couple weeks.

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Simulation, Error, and Modeling the Physical World

simulation

modeling

physics

A few years ago I took a course from Sauro Succi called Computational Methods for the Physical Sciences that surveyed topics such as computational methods for solving…

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Intro to Gaussian Processes

machine-learning

statistics

In this article I’m going to try to provide some intuition around how multivariate Gaussian distributions and Gaussian process models can be useful for modeling smooth…

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National Zoo, 2018

photography

travel

These are just a handful of the shots I thought turned out best from a trip I took down to Washington DC in 2018. Besides visiting the National Zoo, I danced at the DC…

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HOPE 2020

technology

conferences

HOPE 2020 took place July 25th through August 2nd and for the first time ever was all-online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve written up this summary of my seven favorite…

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Resources for R Programmers

R

programming

This is a set of resources for people interested in the R programming language.

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Introduction to the Theory of Elliptic Curves

mathematics

Elliptic curves are a subject, simple to construct and ubiquitous, that have found themselves at the forefront of Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry research. The subject…

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QualtricsTools : Automated Survey Processing

surveys

R

shiny

QualtricsTools is an open source application built in R Shiny that I started while working at Tufts that allows users to upload a Qualtrics JSON QSF Survey File, and…

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Washington State Photography

photography

travel

I took some photos in Olympic National Park and around Seattle

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Colorado State Photography

photography

travel

I took some photos in Rocky Mountain National Park and around Denver

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