Gary Koplik's personal website: projects, blog, and CV Zola 2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://gjkoplik.github.io/projects/atom.xml 2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://gjkoplik.github.io/projects/blog/talking-with-a-partner/ <p>You'll say more and say it faster if you speak with LLMs instead of typing at them. I wrote about how switching to voice dictation changed both the quantity and the quality of context I give coding agents.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@gary.koplik/talking-with-a-partner-instead-of-typing-at-a-worker-9c61be213860">Read "Talking with a Partner Instead of Typing at a Worker" on Medium »</a></p> 2026-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://gjkoplik.github.io/projects/blog/hiveplotlib-v027-speedups/ <p>Hiveplotlib v0.27.0 brings performance improvements when generating hive plots for large networks, through Numba JIT compilation, parallelization, and optimized datashader rendering.</p> <p><a href="https://hiveplotlib.readthedocs.io/stable/blog/v0.27.0_speedups.html">Read "Hiveplotlib v0.27.0 Speedups" on the hiveplotlib blog »</a></p> 2025-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 2025-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://gjkoplik.github.io/projects/blog/hiveplotlib-migrating-to-new-hiveplot-class/ <p>A migration guide for hiveplotlib v0.26: how to transition from the <code>hive_plot_n_axes()</code> function and the older <code>HivePlot</code> class to the new node and edge data structures.</p> <p><a href="https://hiveplotlib.readthedocs.io/stable/blog/migrating_to_new_hiveplot_class.html">Read "Migrating to the New HivePlot Class in 0.26" on the hiveplotlib blog »</a></p> 2025-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 2025-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://gjkoplik.github.io/projects/blog/hiveplotlib-v026-release/ <p>Hiveplotlib v0.26.0 was the package's biggest API overhaul: a quick-access <code>plot()</code> method, new classes for handling tabular node and edge data, and better support for incorporating metadata into visualizations.</p> <p><a href="https://hiveplotlib.readthedocs.io/stable/blog/v0.26.0_release.html">Read "Hiveplotlib v0.26.0" on the hiveplotlib blog »</a></p> 2020-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 2020-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://gjkoplik.github.io/projects/blog/introducing-hiveplotlib/ <p>Hiveplotlib is a new, open-source Python package for generating hive plots. Originally developed by Martin Krzywinski, hive plots generate well-defined figures that allow for interpretable, visual explorations of network data.</p> <p>The package lives on <a href="https://gitlab.com/hiveplotlib/hiveplotlib">GitLab</a>, with <a href="https://hiveplotlib.readthedocs.io/stable/">documentation</a> covering further explanation of hive plots, examples on both toy and real data, and full API documentation.</p> <p>I wrote a full introduction over on Towards Data Science:</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/data-science/introducing-hiveplotlib-31014cefc7ac">Read "Introducing Hiveplotlib" on Towards Data Science »</a></p> 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://gjkoplik.github.io/projects/blog/persistent-homology-with-examples/ <p>Working at Geometric Data Analytics, a company full of topologists, I routinely need to write and interpret tools from topological data analysis (TDA). TDA lives in the world of algebraic topology, a blending of abstract algebra and topology. Abstract algebra was never my strong suit, nor have I ever taken a formal topology class, so I wrote non-mathy explanations and examples for one of the tools I use most: persistent homology.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/data-science/persistent-homology-with-examples-1974d4b9c3d0">Read "Persistent Homology with Examples" on Towards Data Science »</a></p>