After making a figure with your favorite software—matplotlib, R, Matlab, gnuplot, etc.—there are usually many details that could need a touch-up. In collaborations, somehow that’s usually my job. Maybe partly because I’ve been using Illustrator since I-forgot-when, so I acquired some speed. I also love graphic design and am teaching scientific visualization (two areas with […]
Category: Skills
Beauty contest or masonry
A lighthearted post about whether or not it is right to market your scientific output—a topic I am neutral about because there are great arguments on both sides, canceling each other. So, my inner dialogue could go like: Hey! Did you see César Hidalgo tweeting that storytelling is an American thing? Isn’t it anthropology 101 […]
Common mistakes in network code
This is not really a blog post, but rather a checklist of more or less painful mistakes in networks-science programs by me, or my students or teachers. (As a side note, computer scientists tend to be better a this, but are by no means immune to it.) This list is incomplete. I plan to fill […]
Petter Holme 