Richard Strange

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AI, Volcanoes, Agritech and Data Strategy. I know, I'm confused by the combination too.
Working with the lovely people at https://fdl.ai
📍Oxford, ricocheting through a DPhil (PhD)
LocationOxford, UK
Depthttps://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/richard-strange/

Folks - even if your primary motivation is research I'm begging you to spend time structuring your code beyond a notebook. I'm talking modularity, tests, docs, etc.

It will feel square peg -> round hole to start but once you find that new groove it will actually help make your work even more relevant which is what almost all of us are after anyway.

@arynn Snowflake has definitely been the most headache-free storage solution I've used recently. Bigquery can be pretty nice to use too. Conversely, Synapse was probably the most painful, with so many under-the-hood missing features at launch.
@arynn There is a lot to unpack here - if you lean into #lean concepts, then every activity should be related back to business needs. Furthermore, the weak link here might be the dashboarding/visualisation/reporting, rather than the data exercises themselves. That being said, unless there are privacy, security, or major cost concerns, playing with data in a sandbox is a good way to develop the capability of a team, and you might just discover something! #data #sandbox #dataviz #analytics

"I hope this email finds you well"

How your email finds me:

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I wish I had discovered the nb_conda_kernels library for managing conda kernels in Jupyter sooner. That being said, I wonder if there is a less clunky solution for automatically finding, adding, and removing kernels for the Jupyter interface?

#Jupyter #Python #DataScience #Kernel

Mastodon habits I'm trying to lock in, rather than revert to my Twitter habits:

1) use CWs liberally
2) when threading, set first post to "public" and the rest to "not listed"
3) don't forget the description text when posting images (had to work on that in Twitter too)
4) throw in hashtags like it was Tumblr or Instagram when you want to reach beyond your followers
5) pin and visit hashtags to find more people
6) boost a lot

I think I broke the thread :-(

It carries on here: https://mastodon.online/@duncanwp/109308827893221490

Duncan Watson-Parris (@[email protected])

A key aspect with this approach is that we’re also able to take into account the spatial distribution of aerosol emissions, which can make a crucial difference c.f. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01415-4

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@duncanwp: Welcome! It seems more Oxonians are joining the migration! see @yaringal @nantas @maosbot

Rude of me not to introduce myself!

I'm a #climate scientist at the University of #Oxford trying to better understand the role of #aerosol, in particular through their interaction with #clouds. I'm increasingly using #machinelearning to help emulate and interpret the huge amount of #satellite and #model data we have.

Perhaps also relevant: #emissions #uncertainty #feedbacks, and occasionally #photography 🙂 Feel free to reach out!