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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · 16d

Proud of GSoC mentee, Indu, for finishing her fellowship with JuliaHealth on:

- Interface for multimodal & public health informatics
- Easing PLP with OMOP CDM DBs

Excited! Leads to robust prediction pipelines & stronger collaborations in #julialang!

Details 👇

#medsky #opensource 🧪 #academicsky

[GSoC 2025] Supporting Patient-Level Pipelines within JuliaHealth

Hello Julia Community! 👋 I’m thrilled to share a major milestone: I’ve officially completed my Google Summer Of Code 2025 project with JuliaHealth! This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to im...

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fun news! 🤠

Was accepted to the "Formal Scientific Modeling: A Case Study in Global Health" Workshop @ American Institute of Mathematics! 🥳

Will be in Pasadena exploring category theory tools for decision support & modeling in pandemic science. 🧪🔎

Questions? Let me know!

#mathsky #academicsky 🛟🩺

Formal scientific modeling: a case study in global health | American Inst. of Mathematics

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fun news! 🤠

Was accepted to the "Formal Scientific Modeling: A Case Study in Global Health" Workshop @ American Institute of Mathematics! 🥳

Will be in Pasadena exploring category theory tools for decision support & modeling in pandemic science. 🧪🔎

Questions? Let me know!

#mathsky #academicsky 🛟🩺

Formal scientific modeling: a case study in global health | American Inst. of Mathematics

aimath.org

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Aug 28

BlueSky friends!

If you work with paradata ("data about processes"), where would you try submitting a paper about paradata & public health?

Have some notes that can be a paper; wondering what a good journal or conference would be.

TY!

#academicsky #knowledge #health 🧪

CC @ihuvila.bsky.social

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Aug 28

BlueSky friends!

If you work with paradata ("data about processes"), where would you try submitting a paper about paradata & public health?

Have some notes that can be a paper; wondering what a good journal or conference would be.

TY!

#academicsky #knowledge #health 🧪

CC @ihuvila.bsky.social

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social & Michael for having me! Fun & good conversation! 🤗

If you liked the segments about:

- Applied Category Theory in Health Research
- Building JuliaHealth Infrastructure
- Data preservation
- Getting started in #julialang

Feel free to reach out! 🤓

#mathsky 🧪 🛟🩺

Chris Rackauckas @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social · Aug 5

#Julialang Dispatch: we welcome Jacob Zelko, who takes us on a fascinating journey from his early days as a #biomedical engineering student through his work at the CDC during the COVID-19 pandemic, and into his current exploration of applied #categorytheory.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMp...

Julia Health with Jacob Zelko

YouTube video by Julia Dispatch

www.youtube.com

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congrats on the new package!

You might be interested in joining the Julia Slack and the #health-and-medicine channel where us JuliaHealth folks live. We are growing quite steadily and would love to hear what you are up to!

Also, why the fury about docstrings? What features are you missing?

The Julia Language Slack

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 31

🔎 Temporal graph theory (dynamic graphs) is nifty

🤯 Introduced by Wilmer Leal & learned more from Aurora Rossi + @carlolucibello.bsky.social's work on GraphNeuralNetworks.jl @juliacon.bsky.social.

🧠 I want to read more; suggestions?

❓How do you track graph changes?

#mathsky #graph #learning 🧪

Home · GraphNeuralNetworks.jl

Documentation for GraphNeuralNetworks.jl.

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 31

🔎 Temporal graph theory (dynamic graphs) is nifty

🤯 Introduced by Wilmer Leal & learned more from Aurora Rossi + @carlolucibello.bsky.social's work on GraphNeuralNetworks.jl @juliacon.bsky.social.

🧠 I want to read more; suggestions?

❓How do you track graph changes?

#mathsky #graph #learning 🧪

Home · GraphNeuralNetworks.jl

Documentation for GraphNeuralNetworks.jl.

juliagraphs.org

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 26

That's a wrap for @juliacon.bsky.social 2025 for me! 💥

Great meeting JuliaHealth folks in person, having our first-ever Mini-Symposium, & planning for the ecosystem! Thanks to all who attended!

Ready to recharge & build #opensource!

P.S. Snagged our annual #julialang @frame.work group photo too!

The cult of the Framework Julia users continues to grow!

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 26

That's a wrap for @juliacon.bsky.social 2025 for me! 💥

Great meeting JuliaHealth folks in person, having our first-ever Mini-Symposium, & planning for the ecosystem! Thanks to all who attended!

Ready to recharge & build #opensource!

P.S. Snagged our annual #julialang @frame.work group photo too!

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 24

Go @cncastillo.bsky.social!

Love the work of KomaMRI.jl -- currently the bleeding edge of Magnetic Resonance Imaging work!

For those in medical #imaging, please check out the package! 🤯

juliahealth.org/KomaMRI.jl/s...

#julialang #opensource

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 24

@juliacon.bsky.social? Let's chat a/b:

🛟 JuliaHealth - using #julialang in public #health & precision #medicine

🤓 AlgebraicJulia - computational applied category theory framework

🛠️ Hardware - #raspberrypi hacking and programming

Grab me and let's get hacking! 🥷 🖥️

#opensource #openscience 🧪

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 22

I absolutely adore the viz work of W. E. B. Dubois.

Not only was it pioneering the art of scientific communication but also paved the way for discussion around racism, disparities, and other quantities that we take for granted in sociological contexts.

Book: www.amazon.com/W-Boiss-Data...

One of the most iconic visualizations from W.E.B. Dubois

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 14

Made a public dev log of using #julialang and a #raspberrypi to make an e-ink dash! 💻

Feel free to join in the adventure! 🤠

Doing this to log my discoveries and thoughts. ⚗️

Who knows? Maybe there can be a bunch of E-Ink Julia dashboards floating around the world soon! 😁

#hacking #hobby #dataviz

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 14

Made a public dev log of using #julialang and a #raspberrypi to make an e-ink dash! 💻

Feel free to join in the adventure! 🤠

Doing this to log my discoveries and thoughts. ⚗️

Who knows? Maybe there can be a bunch of E-Ink Julia dashboards floating around the world soon! 😁

#hacking #hobby #dataviz

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 11

Oh that sounds fascinating! What sorts of projects do you tend to work on? I am slowly rediscovering my love of hardware hacking and hardware engineering so would love to hear more!

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 10

Per Julia LTS (1.10), you could refill water, make a cuppa tea, and sit back down to continue hacking on the Pi! 🍵

Story is great; Pi 4 only has 4GB RAM. Did expand swap to 2GB (overkill) for compiling but... Not bad. Will share future updates! 🔮

No problems with #Julialang in my non-hobby work. 🤓

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thanks for the kind words! More updates to come!

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 10

Yea, the cost is quite prohibitive. Could be nice to have nice "at-a-glance" displays for random useful info.

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 8

After half a year of hobby #hacking, got an eink interface working w #julialang! 🎉

Now: tidy code & docs @ github.com/TheCedarPrin...

Future: custom dashboard making via @makie.org for

- UV Index 🌞
- Boston Sailing Info ⛵
- todo.txt Todo List 📝
- Google Calendar 🗓️
- 🤯

#maker #raspberrypi

A raspberry pi 4 driving a 7.5in eink display from waveshare. The eink display shows a sinusoidal curve on an xy axis.

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you are a #maker or #hobby #programmer, what other sorts of modules can you think of?

Open to ideas and suggestions about what has been useful or informative to you!

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jul 8

After half a year of hobby #hacking, got an eink interface working w #julialang! 🎉

Now: tidy code & docs @ github.com/TheCedarPrin...

Future: custom dashboard making via @makie.org for

- UV Index 🌞
- Boston Sailing Info ⛵
- todo.txt Todo List 📝
- Google Calendar 🗓️
- 🤯

#maker #raspberrypi

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jun 9

Finished a great week at the International Conference on Applied Category Theory! 🤓

Made great connections, reconnected w old friends, and came away w new ideas! Our talk on ACSets was a success - excited a/b the future of compositional data science & public health! 💥

#mathsky #academicsky 🧪

A fine assemblage of mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers from across the globe all united to discuss applied category theory!

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · Jun 9

Gainesville was so much fun too! Tons of hiking, some dancing, and great little city to explore! 🕺

Here are some fun photos!

#nature #dancing

Salsa and bachata dancing in the street!

Heron showing its wings in Silver Springs State Park!

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