Topics in statistical computing @ ISU
Time & Place: Snedecor 2102, T 4-5
Timeline & Topics:
- Jan 20: discussion of topics and timeline
- Jan 27: very basic things in python (Jason, Alex, Ian)
- Feb 3: numpy, scipy, how does python work in general? (Alex),
- Feb 10: pandas (Carson) - the python version of Hadley-verse
- Feb 17: scikit learn (Jason)
- Feb 24: scikit again?
- Mar 3: ggply: Grammar of Graphics in python, other packages for static graphics
- Mar 10: interactive graphics (bokeh, seaborn) (Andee)
- Mar 24: opencv (Eric), python interface, computer vision
- Mar 31: ipython
- Apr 7: Django, Flask - alternatives to shiny (Eric)
- Apr 14: Beautiful soup - webscraping (Carson)
- Apr 21: sympy (Andee): symbolic mathematics
- Apr 28: mapreduce in python (), python interpreters - speedup?
Resources:
- [https://www.python.org/]
- Python notebooks: [http://ipython.org/notebook.html]
Time & Place: Snedecor 1109, W 12-1
Timeline & Topics:
- Aug 27: installation of Julia, discussion of topics and timeline
- Sep 3: intro to Julia (Heike)
- Sep 10: graphics capabilities: e.g. gadfly (Andee, Sam T, Carson): overview, gadfly examples, and embedding Julia in HTML with knitr
- Sep 17: ML capabilities (Sam H) [detecting text in images: first steps with Julia https://www.kaggle.com/c/street-view-getting-started-with-julia]
- Sep 24: ML lab
- Oct 1: Python and Julia, IPython notebooks (Carson, Sam T)
- Oct 8: IJulia (Andee, Eric)
- Oct 15: macro programming (Gray)
- Oct 22: open
- Oct 29: wrapper of GPU computing (Sam H)
- Nov 5: detecting text in images: first steps with Julia https://www.kaggle.com/c/street-view-getting-started-with-julia (all)
- Nov 12: Parallel Computing with Julia (Alex)
- Nov 19: benchmarking example (Somenath)
- Dec 3: benchmarking base code (Andee)
- Dec 10: benchmarking hadleyverse (Eric)
Resources:
- the Julia language: http://julialang.org/
- Statistics group: http://juliastats.org/
- video overviews from the Julia Conference: http://juliacon.org/
- free iPython/console access through the browser: http://juliabox.org
- the page intentionally doesn't make this clear, but this is by the Julia team; see http://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/2flf0l/juliabox/ckaxx4x