This was the first meeting of py4science, and was primarily organizational.
Attendance
12 attendees, with an experience breakdown of:
- Experienced: 6
- New: 3
- Intermediate: 3
People came from a variety of different departments and organizations as well:
- Helen Wills
- Redwood Center
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Nuclear engineering
- IPython
- Astronomy
- I School
Meeting topics
Newbie nuggets
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Each meeting will start with approximately 20 minutes for a “newbie nugget”, which is a brief overview of some introductory topic.
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Newbie nuggets should be written up in IPython notebooks, so they can be archived and referred to
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Cindee went through two example nuggets on the glob library and list comprehensions
Related groups/events
- Working groups
- Python for data analysis on Fridays 12-2pm, in D-Lab (Bob Bell)
- Text analysis on Fridays 2-4pm in D-Lab
- There will probably be more Python Fundamentals courses
Advanced topics for lightning talks
What do people want to hear about?
- Test-driven development (resources, getting into the habit of test-driven development)
- Using virtual environments
- Parallel computing (theano, and just parallelization in general)
- Pandas workflow
- IPython: new and upcoming features, tips and tricks
- How to work on the bleeding edge of an environment
- Maintaining packages
- pytables
- Writing documentation
- Cython
- Python 3
- Development tools: editors, version control, pylint, etc.
- scikits (especially scikit-learn)
- statsmodels
- RPy
- Javascript, D3
- Pyglet
- Starcluster (for managing amazon ec2 clusters)
- networkx
- Package managment (pip, easy_install, anaconda, enthought, wheels, etc…)
- Panda3D
Publicity
How do we get the word out about this meeting to people? What is the best way to have a collaborative sharing environment?
- py4science mailing list (please forward to other lists, too!)
- google calendar that sits on the website, can be imported (this has now been created and can be found here
- py4science list name is not on the website, there should be a link that takes you to the page to add yourself. We should also include this in the emails.
- py4science twitter feed?
- we should put the exact room number on the invitation emails/website
Misc
- Open to more people besides Berkeley, e.g. industry
- If we want pizza, we can set up a collection and ask different people to bring food each meeting. D-Lab will reimburse for small amounts of food.
- Information about the old py4science can be found here
Future meetings
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Meetings are every other week, may change to every week if there’s enough content
- Next meeting is in two weeks 10/02/2013
- Cindee will do the newbie nugget
- Lightning talks on advanced topics (~20 minutes each)
- Python 3 (Thomas)
- New stuff in IPython (Min)
- The following meeting: editor extravaganza!