As a data scientist, most of my work takes place in professional settings with limited public access.<\/p>\n
This page brings together some of my favourite pieces from public-facing projects.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI find, in fact, that I think less and less about time these days, in part because I\u2019ve found that I\u2019m able to both get a lot more accomplished and feel a lot more present when I keep my thinking about it to a minimum.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Endings.<\/a><\/li>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an idea that\u2019s stuck with me, and one that I\u2019ve incorporated into my own work ever since.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As April ends, I\u2019m thinking about\u2026<\/a><\/li>\n This month\u2019s recommended reading includes an essay by Kyle Chayka and recent work from Laurie Woolever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Keep the line open.<\/a><\/li>\n \u201cOne thing I\u2019ve learned, over the course of my career, is that you never know when someone from your professional past will later come to play a role in your professional present.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gift your best time to yourself.<\/a><\/li>\n \u201cThe challenge, when it came to realizing my longer-term goals, had mostly been that although they were important to me in the long run their benefits were both largely intangible and relatively far in the future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As March ends, I\u2019m thinking about…<\/a><\/li>\n This month\u2019s recommended reading includes an essay by Alexander Chee and recent work from Anthropic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Mentorship probably won\u2019t look the way you thought it would.<\/a><\/li>\n \u201cToo often, there\u2019s an expectation that a mentor will offer a clear-cut answer, a distinctly measurable outcome, or some piece of advice that will be immediately actionable. In reality, it\u2019s a lot of gradually piecing together little bits of insight that, on their own, don\u2019t necessarily look like much.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The calvary isn\u2019t coming.<\/a><\/li>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do it all<\/em> yourself, but you will almost certainly have to be the one who at least gets the ball rolling by putting yourself forward for consideration in some way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It (mostly) happens on email.<\/a><\/li>\n \u201cI was once offered a job I hadn\u2019t applied to, from a person I didn\u2019t know, because I\u2019d been recommended for the position by another person I didn\u2019t know. What connection did they<\/em> have to me or my work? Our only exchange had been a single cold email I\u2019d sent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As February ends, I\u2019m thinking about…<\/a><\/li>\n \u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve lived, worked, and studied in many different countries, using several different languages. I\u2019ve lived in big cities, and I\u2019ve lived in small ones; I\u2019ve lived in places whose names anybody would know, and I\u2019ve lived in places that few have ever heard of. What these experiences have taught me is that amazing people are not a finite resource.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Reading through the pandemic: A year (and a bit) in review<\/a><\/li>\n “It was the middle of PhD application season, and I had recently been admitted to the PhD in English programs at Oxford and at Cambridge. The next step in the progression of this decision-making process was to buy my plane tickets to the UK, where I was scheduled to attend the welcome day events for newly admitted students at each university.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Context is king: A prediction about the future of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots.<\/a>
\n\u201cWhy, then, would OpenAI use the term \u2018remember\u2019 to describe what ChatGPT is capable of doing? I suspect that, in part, it\u2019s a gesture towards a future in which ChatGPT has undergone significant improvements in contextual capability.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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INTERSECT: Cultivating a new breed of researchers<\/a>, from Princeton Research Computing<\/li>\n How Poetry Matters is making space for a conversation on poetry<\/a>, from the McGill Faculty of Arts<\/li>\n Research radar<\/a>, from Concordia University<\/li>\n Fictionalizing science: How literature and film have shaped modern technology<\/a>, from The Tribune<\/em>
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\nJana M. Perkins, PhD<\/strong>, is an award-winning scholar. Her research has garnered over a quarter of a million dollars in funding from leading institutions across North America and the UK, including the University of Cambridge and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). As a data scientist with a background in literary scholarship, her expertise extends across disciplines to yield the unique analytical frameworks which characterize her approach. Her forthcoming book<\/a>, co-authored with Miranda Dunham-Hickman, will be published by Routledge.<\/p>\n
Visit her online at janajm.com<\/a> or @janajm<\/a> on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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