Civic tech career panel at Tapia Conference
Using Your Tech Skills In Public Service to Create Impact: Perspectives in Civic Tech
Recent happenings
2021
Mock Kafka streams tutorial in Towards Data Science
I’ve published a new article on using Apache Kafka on Medium.
ACM Chicago Meetup Panel on career change
Join for a panel discussion on navigating career change.
MLflow how-to tutorial in Towards Data Science
I’ve published a new article on using mlflow on Medium.
Presidential Innovation Fellows
My latest adventure is a tour-of-duty in civic tech.
2020
High Alpha Innovation
I’ve joined the team at High Alpha Innovation.
Talk recording available for Indy Cloud Conf
My machine learning engineering talk recording is now up on YouTube.
AI Executive Summit
Pattern89, High Alpha, and Indiana University hosted an executive summit on AI practices and applications.
Indy Cloud Conf 2020 talk
I’ll be giving a talk about machine learning engineering at Indy Cloud Conf.
2019
Field Museum’s Annual Chicagoland Women in Science Mixer
Join for a panel discussion and networking.
Kafka Summit 2019 talk
My Kafka Summit talk on building a streaming analytics framework is available now on Confluent’s website.
Astro2020 Decadal Survey white papers published
Read our two white papers calling for actions to improve workplace conditions for women and minorities in astronomy.
Streaming data from the Universe article
Read my article on Confluent’s blog on how astronomers work with streaming data.
Data stream processing tutorial available
Here’s a tutorial on running streaming analysis with Kafka and KSQL.
2018
Paper on ZTF alerts published
Our new paper ‘The Zwicky Transient Facility Alert Distribution System’ was published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
New job with High Alpha
I’ve moved to Indianapolis for a new job with High Alpha.
Open Data Day 2018
I gave an open data demo for the Seattle celebration of Open Data Day.
2017
ODSC West 2017
I’m attending the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) West in California.
Befriending Failure Workshop at Tapia Conference
We’ve organized a panel and workshop at the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing called ‘Befriending Failure is Simply Smarter!’
PyData Seattle 2017 talk
I gave a talk entitled “Building a community fountain around your data stream” at the PyData Seattle 2017 Conference held at Microsoft on July 7th.
Search for Hidden Figures
PepsiCo and 21st Century Fox named me a modern ‘Hidden Figure’ in the next generation of women who will lead the way in STEM.
2016
Paper on hydrological modeling published
Our new paper ‘Hydrological Modeling and Capacity Building in the Republic of Namibia’ was published in the Bulletins of the American Meteorological Society.
Big data BOF at Tapia Conference
We’ve organized a Birds of a Feather at the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing called ‘Turning Big Data into Big Opportunities’.
Paper on data commons published
Our new paper ‘A Case for Data Commons: Toward Data Science as a Service’ was published in a special issue of Computing in Science and Engineering.
New job with the LSST
I’ve moved to Seattle for a new job with the LSST at the University of Washington.
White House OSTP Open Data Roundtable
I participated in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Center for Open Data Enterprise’s 2016 Open Data Roundtable.
Data now available in the OCC NOAA Data Commons
NOAA NEXRAD radar data are now available from the OCC Environmental Data Commons as part of the OCC-NOAA Big Data Project Alliance.
ACM Meetup Talk
I gave a lecture entitled “Big Data vs. the Scientist, Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the cloud” at the ACM Chicago June Meetup.
NOAA Big Data Project Update
I gave a presentation at the AMS meeting on the status of the NOAA Big Data Project.