Chad Topaz

@chadtopaz
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Data scientist/mathematician and activist at Williams College, University of Colorado, and QSIDE Institute. 👨‍👨‍👦 🐶 🐭 🎻 🧘‍♂️ 📖 🇫🇷 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ✊🏿
Personal/Professional Websitehttps://www.chadtopaz.com
Nonprofit Institutehttps://www.qsideinstitute.org
Viola Resumehttps://bit.ly/violachad
Well I checked in on EJMR for like the first time in months and of course immediately regretted it. Keep it classy, #economists. #LGBTQ
#Math friends, if you didn't already, please see this important inclusion/exclusion post from @pwr2dppl. And don't just see it. Do what it says. (p.s., I am not attending JMM.) https://inclusionexclusion.org/2023/01/02/disrupting-jmm-2023/
Disrupting JMM 2023

Inclusion/Exclusion

One of my goals for 2023 is to be more food efficient & eat out less. But I am busy and not a cook. So I am just... doing stuff, and sharing it.

Take some small potatoes sitting around. Quarter them and boil until you've answered 7 emails. Drain. Heat rando amt olive oil in skillet. Chop some leftover herbs, I don't care what kind. Add all to skillet with salt + pepper. At some point, drop an egg in. Voila: contains vitamins, protein, healthy starch. Eat while writing rec letter due yesterday.

I'm excited to have just joined the editorial board of Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (https://www.nature.com/palcomms/). Why? (1) I've had great experiences publishing there -- fast, fair, constructive review, open access. (2) I want to be a touchpoint for quant social justice submissions. If you are an #academic #researcher working at the interface of #datascience + #socialjustice, please choose Nature HSS for #publication and suggest me as a handling editor. Spread the word!
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications is a fully open-access, online journal publishing peer-reviewed research from across—and between—all areas of the ...

Nature
RT @elfsternberg
DeSantis' lawyers were forced by the court to define "woke." The lead lawyer described it as "The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/574045-in-andrew-warren-suspension-trial-gov-desantis-officials-answer-what-does-woke-mean/
In Andrew Warren suspension trial, Gov. DeSantis officials answer: What does ‘woke’ mean?

'It's a slang term for activism, progressive activism.'

Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.
#FreePalestine btw
and #LandBack
obviously #BlackLivesMatter
#TransRights #DisabilityJustice #ACAB etc block me if you need to oppress others to feel safe ❤️

♥️For my mother♥️

pls boost🌹

#math and #DataScience folx, I am excited to present all materials for my Computational Linear Algebra course (in a Github repo).

There is a Readme file that talks about the course, so I'll just say a few quick words. It's a very applied 2nd course in linear algebra. It also builds programming skills. Many of my students tell me "oh, when I took linear algebra, I hadn't realized it was useful."

This was done as a labor of love. I'd be thrilled if you use and share it.

http://github.com/chadtopaz/computational-linear-algebra

GitHub - chadtopaz/computational-linear-algebra

Contribute to chadtopaz/computational-linear-algebra development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

I assume you woke up today saying "I'd please like to learn about topological data analysis. In Arabic. Using Pokemon as a case study." Fortunately, I've got your back.

Just learned that this article of mine (+ @masonporter, Abigail Hickok, Yacoub Koureh, Michelle Feng) from 2021 got translated and I am HERE FOR IT.

https://kids.frontiersin.org/ar/articles/10.3389/frym.2021.551557-ar

توصيل النقاط: اكتشاف ”شكل” البيانات

يستخدم العلماء فرعًا من العلوم الرياضية يعرف باسم الطوبولوجيا لدراسة أشكال الأجسام. ويعد إحصاء عدد الأجزاء وعدد الفجوات في جسم ما من الأمور المهمة في الطوبولوجيا، حيث يستخدم العلماء هذه المعلومات لتصنيف هذه الأجسام في مجموعات من أنواع مختلفة. فعلى سبيل المثال، يوجد في الكعكة نفس عدد الفجوات ونفس عدد الأجزاء الموجودة في فنجان الشاي ذي اليد الواحدة، ولكنها تختلف عن الكرة. وفي الدراسات التي تشبه الأنشطة مثل ”توصيل النقاط“، يستخدم العلماء الأفكار المأخوذة من الطوبولوجيا لدراسة ”شكل“ البيانات. وقد استخدم العلماء الأفكار والطرق المأخوذة من الطوبولوجيا لدراسة الهياكل المتفرعة للعروق في أوراق النبات، والتصويت في الانتخابات، وأنماط الطيران في نماذج أسراب الطيور، والمزيد.

Frontiers for Young Minds
@pwr2dppl I might have talked about you in this video 😬😬😬 and sorry not sorry that you taught me the most important lesson of my career.