Recently there has been some buzz around Jupyter Notebooks in science, especially in light of the LIGO team sharing their detection and analysis of gravitational waves in Jupyter Notebooks. Others have claimed that Jupyter Notebooks will render traditional academic journal articles obsolete. The notebook or literate programming format improves on …

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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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You may have seen my other post on quickly getting papers remotely through your own library with JavaScript. This method works well if your paper is easy to find and you just need to get around the paywall using the access your institution pays for. Sometimes, especially with older papers …

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If you've done any computational work on a high-performance computing system, odds are you are very familiar with shell scripting and running code in at least 3 different languages that was passed down through the years. You know the theory of how it all works, but can never find the …

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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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Whether you are at home or traveling to a conference, it can be helpful to have access to all of the literature online that you would have at your institution. This article covers some easy and practical ways to connect to your institution's library easily. Some of these techniques work …

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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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