Intro

This in my old page; visit the new one: http://p.migdal.pl/

Piotr Migdał¹, PhD - freelancing in data analysis, processing and interactive visualization (a "data scientist", to put it fashionably).

PhD from ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona) with thesis Symmetries and self-similarity of many-body wavefunctions under supervision of Maciej Lewenstein and Javi Rodriguez-Laguna. Originally from Bielsko-Biała (southern Poland). Alumnus of the University of Warsaw (Phys + Maths), KFnrD and RSI2005.

Dedicated to education of gifted schoolchildren and organization of bottom-up activities. In free time enjoys photography, hiking and coding. Dreams about revolutionizing how science and education are being done. Loves good e-mails.

Preferred contact: moc.liamg|ladgimp#moc.liamg|ladgimp²

Site map

• CV (Curriculum Vitae / Resume)
• Research (geometry of quantum states, mathematical modeling in psychology, data science, quantum applied optics…)
• Education (teaching highly talented students, materials, articles on education…)
• Projects (ones not mentioned above)
• Links (various; mostly science-related)
• Photos (some of them are nice, enjoy :))
• Site in Polish (much richer in didactic content, witty jokes etc…) (still there, but no longer maintained)

My profiles

• Piotr Migdał - Blog (new, as of 2 Dec 2015)
• Social: LinkedIn, FB, G+ (for discussions), Twitter (write-only :))
• Q&A: StackExchange and MathOverflow
• Code: GitHub account (I will put a list of ideas there)
• Links: del.icio.us -> Pinboard (just a list, not even recommendations)

The current issue(s):

• I do machine learning and big data trainings (Python data science stack: IPython Notebook, scikit-learn, Spark). A video footage from of data science training in San Francisco, by DeepSense.io. Next ones in New York and London: http://trainings.deepsense.io/.
• I did a Renyi entropy workshop for gifted high-school students at 11. Wakacyjne Warsztaty Wielodyscyplinarne.
• I did Data Analysis Summer School for sociologists, first week of July 2015, Warsaw (IPython Notebooks here).
• Working on Analiza matur (analysis of Polish end-of-high-school exams).
• Quantum superposition - an introduction, as a quest post to John Baez's Azimuth
• TagOverflow - an interactive explorer of Stack Exchange tags (including Stack Overflow and MathOverflow).
• Wrote There are no projects like side projects for Scientia Crastina (see this HN thread).
• Working on the Quantum Game.
• I will did Visualizing Wikipedia workshop for high-school students, on Wakacyjne Warsztaty Wielodyscyplinarne; some of its fruits:
  • A timline of Linux distributions
  • A graph of workshops at this camp (and their co-participations)
• 5th Offtopicarium, 26-28 Sept 2014, Węgierska Górka, Poland - an unconference with total freedom on topic, for people from different fields.
• I made an interactive map of fellows and alumni of the Polish Children's fund.
• I am contributing to QuTiP : Quantum Toolbox in Python.
• Compass, the San Francisco-based startup I have been interning in, has relaunched! :)
• 3rd Offtopicarium, 9-12 Aug 2013, Warsaw.
• Themes and colors of books - an interactive visualizations in D3.js (or in Polish: Motywy i kolory ze zbioru Wolnych Lektur).
• Designing a quantum mechanics game (and another one, about electric circuits).
• Graph Map of Tags at StackExchange sites.
• An article An independent camp for high school geeks - on teaching gifted kids, bootstrapping an event and an informal atmosphere.
• A summary of a talk on Open Science and Science 2.0.

Footnotes

1. 'ł' - l-bar (or l with stroke), pronounced as 'w' in 'wall' or… whatever; do not confuse with neither $l/2\pi$ nor $l_\mu \gamma^\mu$!

2. Feel free to write to me if you want to ask something or share your ideas. I love (good) e-mails!

The tower is worth more than a single stone.