I started this website to organize my notes and to share projects past and present. I'm excited by learning and wanted to write about my adventures with science and data. It's also efficient to consolidate my professional and personal web activities into a single hub. The website is mostly finished but the content is a work–in–progress, so stay tuned.

A note on the tech

I built this website in Django (Python) served by Nginx and Gunicorn with a PostgreSQL database. Media are served from an AWS S3 bucket. Using this somewhat heavyweight, production-ready stack provides some future-proofing. And the flexibility of using Python under the hood should come in handy for data-science related content. It also allows for high-levels of interactivity, providing useful pedagogical and data exploratory aids, such as interactive charts:

In the past, I've used Drupal (PHP based) to build websites. Drupal was—and likely still is—a beautiful CMS, but the major version upgrades since version 4 often introduced major breaking changes and new learning curves.

I anticipate that this move to Django will be for the long-term.