# Writings
Below you can find my writings on machine learning, data science, and
technology. Enjoy!
- [Data Science Salaries](/blog/data-science-salaries/): How do data scientist salaries vary by experience and location? Read on to find out!
- [SWITRS: On What Days Do Cyclists Crash?](/blog/switrs-bicycle-crashes-by-date/): California crash data doesn't just cover cars, it covers bikes too! This time we look at when cyclists crash in California.
- [Python Patterns: Enum](/blog/python-patterns-enum/): Things often come in sets of specific items, like states, Pokémon, or playing cards. Python has an elegant way of representing them using enum.
- [Python Patterns: Named Tuples](/blog/python-patterns-namedtuple/): Sometimes I need to store an ordered dataset, but reference specific members from it. Named tuples in Python provide a clean way to do this!
- [SWITRS: Car Crashes After Daylight Saving Time Ends](/blog/switrs-daylight-saving-time-end-accidents/): Daylight saving time leads to more traffic collisions, but what about when DST ends? Some researchers have found that it does lead to more crashes, so I take a look using California's SWITRS data.
- [My Academic Bully at CERN](/blog/my-academic-bully/): Getting my PhD was mostly a great experience, but one woman made my life hell for a short time at CERN. It's tough to write about, but I thought I owed it to myself and others.
- [My Son's Language Development](/blog/my-sons-words/): My son is a little over two and unfortunately he has two huge nerds for parents. We tracked every word he's spoken to watch his language development, and now you can join us!
- [Should I Go To Insight Data Science?](/blog/should-i-go-to-insight/): Insight promises an easy transition from academia to a career in data science or machine learning, but is it the right program for you? I have a few words of advice offered from experience.
- [Improving An Old Supernova Plot](/blog/supernova-plot-improvements/): I learned to use matplotlib more than ten years ago. Around that time, I made a plot of supernova 2002cx for Wikipedia, but it was not terribly good. So this year, I updated it!
- [Python Patterns: max Instead of if](/blog/python-patterns-max-not-if/): I often have to loop over a set of objects to find the one with the greatest score. You can use an if statement and a placeholder, but there are more elegant ways!