[socal-piggies] Python and R/data analysis meeting

[Szilard]

All Python group members:

(Thank you Grig, Adam and Titus from removing my email address from the 
previous post.)

As you know we (the Python and the R/data analysis users groups) are 
organizing a joint event in January. R is an open source software 
environment/programming language for data analysis, statistical 
modeling, visualization, data mining etc.

As the main interest of the R group's members is data analysis, and for 
various data analysis or related tasks other software tools might be 
necessary or might be more appropriate/efficient to use, we'd like to 
have a meeting on how Python can be used in various data analysis 
settings. Also, work in data analysis often involves gluing things 
together, and scripting that in Python is one of the most productive 
ways to do so.

We have discussed potential topics for 3-4 short (20 min) talks:
1. Python and R - a comparison
2. ipython, numpy, scipy, matplotlib - this is the basic Python 
framework for data analysis
3. NLTK
4. NetworkX
5. substituting Unix shell scripts with Python
6. some data related application of Python
7. other

We'll definitively need 1 and 2. We'd like to have at least one person 
from the Python group presenting. This could be 2, 3, 4 if any of you 
have used that, or it could be 5, 6 (or 7). Please let me know if you 
can volunteer to do so.

To keep being informed about the meeting, please sign up to the R users 
group:
http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/
In order to attend a meeting you do need to RSVP via the group's website 
(we were short a few seats in our October meeting, so it's absolutely 
crucial to RSVP for anyone who wants to attend).

Please contact me via the group message system if you have any 
idea/suggestion or you would like to give a talk:
http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/members/9042718/

You can also see the video recording of some of our previous meetings here:
http://www.r-bloggers.com/RUG/
The October meeting had a talk on calling R from Python with rpy2. The 
recording of the November meeting will be added soon and it had a talk 
on "Software tools for data analysis" with some parts about Python.

Hope to see you guys in January,
Szilard


On 11/18/10 4:34 PM, Adam Bernier wrote:
> Last night at the R / data analysis meeting Szilard Pafka, organizer,
> discussed having four (4) 10- to 20-minute talks for the joint Python
> / R meeting in January 2011.
>
> If you have something you'd like to present please let Szilard know.
>
> Several members of the R / data analysis group are familiar with
> Python and plan to present on some of the proposed topics:
>      1. Python / R interoperability;
>      2. Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib;
>      3. Using Python to replace Unix shell scripting;
>      4. open for discussion; some ideas: NLTK, NetworkX
>
> Feel free to join come out to that meeting.
> Like the Python group, this is a diverse group of bright folks.
>
> Adam
>