Jake VanderPlas

@jakevdp

Coffee and Python, preferably in that order. Dad of two girls; once-astronomer; author of , currently working on JAX and Altair. He/him.

Oakland CA
Joined August 2012

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Dec 2020

    weird how every time you see this image on twitter it has a ton of retweets

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  2. 8 hours ago

    "let's have two kids" we said "they'll play together" we said

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  3. May 24

    I was at the hardware store yesterday and impulse-purchased 200 live lady bugs. Got home and tasked my kids with releasing them in the veggie garden... they were enthralled for over an hour. Highly recommend.

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  4. May 20

    One thing that surprised me moving to the east Bay... there are basically no independent coffee shops anywhere that are open before 7am. In Seattle, even at the height of the pandemic, there were multiple good espresso options open within walking distance at 6am

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  5. May 15

    Stopped by a little hidden gem in the Allendale neighborhood of Oakland this morning - highly recommend

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  6. May 15

    My dad worked at Xerox PARC, and we would stop by to use the color copiers before color copiers were a thing

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  7. May 4

    Lots of new spring growth in my little carnivorous garden (bonus points if you can spot the bladderworts!)

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  8. May 1

    Today in overly-precise unit conversions (it's 1.8 x 10^6 km/hour)

    Screenshot of headline reading "Solar Wind Traveling 1,118,468 mph Due to Hit Earth Sunday"
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  9. Apr 29

    so nice when all my hard work is recognized

    Screenshot of text "Hey, Keep up the good work, (First name)!"
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  10. Apr 22

    Even if you're fully vaccinated, the CDC does not recommend importing * in your Python script

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  11. Apr 13

    Totally unprompted, the kiddo decided to make a table showing how close each of her toys is to coming to life. I gotta say, a sequence of pie charts is a solid choice for visualizing this dataset

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  12. Retweeted
    Apr 13

    Curious what we think the future of array computing can look like? Check out our new Dex preprint to see how we’re designing a language for safe, expressive parallelism (incl. no shape errors!) and efficient AD. Available at

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  13. Apr 11
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  14. Apr 6

    ...and they're having no trouble feeding themselves these days. You can see half a dozen little flies caught and wrapped up in the traps!

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  15. Apr 6

    After some slow growth through the winter, the seedlings are a few inches tall now and looking really nice!

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  16. Apr 1

    7yo is off to in-person school this afternoon for the first time in over a year! The house is so quiet. I'm so anxious for her. I'm going to write some code.

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  17. Mar 25

    Got a few new pitcher plants today... this one might be my new favorite: Sarracenia x ‘Judith Hindle’

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  18. Mar 24

    3.243f6a8885a308d313198a24c80c60b1c3f0ec0cec653ac05d674593e434a6b6c10cbf9718b happy hexadecimal pi day

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  19. Mar 14

    - "we should make the standard workday start at 8am instead of 9am - It will still be light when we get home!" - "that's terrible, who wants to get up that early?" - "OK, uh, 11am shall now be called 'noon', but only during the summer" - "perfect."

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  20. Retweeted
    12 Mar 2018

    Status-quo bias is so pervasive... I try to counter it by imagining if the status quo were the new idea being proposed. Like, "hey, you know how we currently just leave our clocks running normally all year? Hear me out... what if we all just *changed the time* twice a year?"

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  21. Mar 12

    Venus flytrap update: during the winter I dug it up and divided the tuber... now I have five Venus Flytraps!

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