Michael Chow

Klutz power is a tool the incompetent but lovable use to get out of things.

This is an annotated version of my talk “PyPharma: Modernising Clinical Data Transformation”, given at the PHUSE Single Day Event in West Windsor, NJ in July 2026.

This is an annotated version of my talk “The Curse of Documentation”, given at posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta in September 2025.

This is an annotated version of my talk “Polars: laying the foundation of the pharmaverse-py”, given at the PHUSE Single Day Event in New Jersey in July 2025.

This is an annotated version of a talk I gave at SciPy 2025 in Tacoma, WA, in July 2025.

Recently, I’ve been helping the plotting library plotnine—a port of ggplot2 to Python. plotnine normally is used to make plots for data analysis.

Travel back to 2021, and I find myself doing two things: Living in a van in my brother’s driveway.

Recently, I wrapped up two years working on the Open Source team at Posit.

This is an annotated version of a talk I gave with Rich Iannone at PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh, about making beautiful, publication quality tables in Python with Great Tables.

Over the past 5 years—while helping create projects at Code for Philly and sitting on organizing committees for events—I’ve often reached for the Code for Philly Project Questionnaire.

A few years ago, I went to a farewell poetry reading for my friend Maryan.

Here, all of it!

As you get halfway through a book called quit you begin to notice some turns into strange diversions until we feel like you are reading an entirely different altogether less compelling book

this is not a format I made up but borrowed from joy williams' 99 stories of god who borrowed from

If a doctor prescribed 200mg of nerds it would be a sweet tart.

Smokey bear has a friend named woodsy owl And it says something that all our wilderness advice comes from cartoon man creatures who sport great denim.

In early 2022 I joined RStudio’s open source group as its second full-time python developer.

This is an annotated version of a talk I gave at dbt Coalesce 2022 in New Orleans on October 18, 2022 — you can watch the video or flip through the original slides.

You were so busy deploying apps that we forgot about the greatest app of all this app they call life

You scatter seed but do not weed for we hate it and season to season the strongest the ones that rise against all odds live on although they can- not make a stew of the victor

My boss carries three pens, one black one blue one red.

A Blind Dog crossing an invisible border into the neighbor's yard

I started cooking us fishsticks but forgot to record the time but also time is a fiction so technically the fishsticks are done and will never be ready.

Over the past several years, while designing skill assessment tools, I’ve stewed on something that might seem obvious: educational and cognitive psychology are distinct fields.

This post explains how one of my favorite civic tech projects in Philadelphia got started.

I’ve had to dive into pandas’ code base over the last year for a project (siuba), and my attitude has shifted dramatically from.. old attitude: why does pandas have to make things so hard?

Imagine you had to implement some action across classes in 60 packages.

Recently, I left my job as a data scientist at DataCamp to focus full time on two areas: co-directing the non-profit Code for Philly bringing the magic of dplyr to python In order to do the second part, I’ve worked over the past year on a data analysis li…

(This article is the last in a series on using the A* algorithm in R.

This post is the second part of a series on using the A* algorithm in R.

Recently, I’ve come across a 3 problems that were solved quickly using the A* algorithm: Splitting cantonese sentences into words (e.g.

This is the story of a simple webapp that came into the world to answer a simple question.

Over the past year I’ve worked on the tools to execute and grade code behind the scenes at DataCamp.