[socal-piggies] socal-piggies Digest, Vol 69, Issue 5
Charles L. Phillips
tptbusines_98 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 19 12:40:06 PST 2010
Hello,
When and where is the next meeting???
Thank you,
Inquire_98
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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. Re: Reminder: R/data analysis meeting
> at UCLA this Wed. 11/17
> (Adam Bernier)
> 2. Re: Python and R joint meeting
> (Szilard)
> 3. Re: Python and R/data analysis meeting
> (Szilard)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:34:46 -0800
> From: Adam Bernier <adam.c.bernier at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] Reminder: R/data analysis
> meeting at UCLA
> this Wed. 11/17
> To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
> Cc: spafka at gmail.com
> Message-ID:
> <AANLkTikkHb4dk8XWrH8KZor8V8_nicUzom8P3LT8_CWu at mail.gmail.com>
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> 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:
> spafka at gmail.com
>
> 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
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I will not be able to attend after all, but I think
> it's an interesting meeting:
> >
> > http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/calendar/15077745/
> >
> > It would be cool to organize a joint meeting with that
> group for next
> > year, so if anybody wants to talk to the R meeting
> organizers about
> > it, please do!
> >
> > Grig
> >
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>
>
> --
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> (310) 430-0710
> http://adam-bernier.appspot.com/
> http://twitter.com/adambernier
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:05:36 -0800
> From: Szilard <szilard.mailinglists at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] Python and R joint meeting
> To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
> Message-ID: <4CE5CD60.9050507 at gmail.com>
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>
> Hi Adam:
>
> I have to say that I'm not very happy that you just posted
> my email
> address to a publicly accessible site inviting all the
> spammers to grab
> it. If there is any way to remove my email address from the
> previous
> post, please someone do so!!!
>
> The preferred method for someone who doesn't know my email
> address to
> contact me is to sign up to the R users group
> http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/
> and send me a message from there.
>
> Anyway, I'd be nice to have at least one talk from someone
> from the
> Python group, ideally something related to data
> manipulation/analysis
> but not necessarily mainly data analysis (maybe an
> application that
> uses/creates heavily data). Please contact me if you can
> volunteer or
> you have ideas/suggestions.
>
> Some corrections:
> - proposed topic #1 was actually comparing R and
> Python
> - to attend the meetings you'll need to sign up to
> the group and RSVP
> for each meeting
>
> Hope to see many of you guys in January,
> Szilard
>
>
> On 11/18/10 4:34 PM, Adam Bernier wrote:
> > Last night at the R / data analysis meeting Szilard,
> 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
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:51:42 -0800
> From: Szilard <szilard.mailinglists at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] Python and R/data analysis
> meeting
> To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
> Message-ID: <4CE6B92E.5060904 at gmail.com>
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> format=flowed
>
> 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
> >
>
>
>
>
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