Michelle Waveform, PhD

@mich_waveform
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I'm a programmer, scientist, and data viz person. I have a background in engineering and a PhD in oceanography. I love writing code and finally figured out a way to do it full time. Big focus on ocean science, conservation, alternative energy sources, effects of noise on marine mammals.

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#python #underwatersound #oceanscience 🇨🇦🇺🇸

personal sitehttps://michw.com
githubhttps://github.com/michellejw
Michelle Waveform, PhDNov 13, 2024
working on my first pyside app. I am so so so slow at it. I feel like a programming toddler right now and I've been coding for like 18 years or something. GUI stuff just hits different.
Michelle Waveform, PhDNov 8, 2024
There will be a time for doing more than this, but at the moment dissociation is all I can muster. Writing code is one of the ways I escape, and this week I started learning React and Next.js. I made a lot of progress, which is actually kind of a bad sign.
Show threadMichelle Waveform, PhDNov 3, 2024
@trisha_gee ah ok yup. That makes sense. I missed that specific nuance!
Show threadMichelle Waveform, PhDOct 23, 2024
@trisha_gee super interesting read! I definitely use AI as a tool to improve my productivity. I also question the AI responses and adjust things as needed, I suppose because I have been coding for a long time. I wonder if it's really that dire of a situation though, with junior programmers and AI - won't juniors still have to have to have their code reviewed, and won't they still need to figure out better ways to do things, whether that's with or without the use of AI?
Show threadMichelle Waveform, PhDOct 23, 2024
@jogoodma this looks really cool! (eek I did not see this when you first replied) - I will def give this a try!!
Show threadMichelle Waveform, PhDOct 23, 2024
They do a good job of explaining the sources and the nuances of the data they're including.
Michelle Waveform, PhDOct 23, 2024
I'm a relatively new US citizen and voted in a federal election for the first time last week. I keep seeing news reports about record-breaking voter turnout and various voter turnout stats. But I was wondering about historical numbers at both the state and national levels. Turns out there's a site that provides a bunch of data: https://election.lab.ufl.edu/voter-turnout/
» United States Voter Turnout UF Election Lab

Show threadMichelle Waveform, PhDAug 20, 2024
nevermind. #memray is happening NOW. memory-profiler was too slow for me (with the @ profile decorators)
Michelle Waveform, PhDAug 20, 2024
wow, memory profiling in python is wild. only very partially know what I'm doing. So far just using memory-profiler. Memray looks v cool but seems a little bit beyond my skill level currently. Maybe next week? ;-) #python #pycharm #memoryprofiling
Michelle Waveform, PhDAug 1, 2024
@eamon Another reason I think I tried it at first was because someone told me Spyder was similar to the Matlab IDE, so I was going for familiarity. But I really quickly switched over to Pycharm and haven't looked back. Which IDE do you use for Python?