mathbabe

Welcome to my new “mathbabe” blog!  I’d like to outline my aspirations for this blog, at least as I see it now.

First, I want to share my experiences as a female mathematician, for the sake of young women wanting to know what things are like as a professional woman mathematician.  Second, I want to share my experiences as an academic mathematician and as a quant in finance, and finally as a data scientist in internet advertising.  (Wait, did I say finally?)

I also want to share explicit mathematical and statistical techniques that I’ve learned by doing these jobs.  For some reason being a quant is treated like a closed guild, and I object to that, because these are powerful techniques that are not that difficult to learn and use.

Next I want to share thoughts and news on subjects such as mathematics and science education, open-source software packages, and anything else I want, since after all this is a blog.

Finally, I want to use this venue to explore new subjects using the techniques I have under my belt, and hopefully develop new ones.  I have a few in mind already and I’m really excited by them, and hopefully with time and feedback from readers some progress can be made.  I want to primarily focus on things that will actually help people, or at least have the potential to help people, and which lend themselves to quantitative analysis.

Woohoo!