Seminar

UW eScience Python Seminar: Fall 2015

Throughout UW’s 2015 fall quarter, we will meet weekly to hear from UW community members about the computational tools they use for their own research.

• Time: 3:00-4:00pm, Mondays through fall quarter 2015
• Location: Data Science Studio Meeting Room (610C), 6th floor of the Physics/Astronomy Tower

Schedule

• Oct 5, 2015: no seminar this week due to eScience all-hands meeting

• Oct 12, 2015: IPython: Beyond Normal Python (notebook) (Jake VanderPlas)

• Oct 19, 2015: Fast Numerical Computing with NumPy (slides) (Jake VanderPlas)

• Oct 26, 2015: Introduction to AstroPy (notebook) (Brett Morris)

• Nov 2, 2015: Performance of Pandas Data Frames by Example (notebook) (Valentina Staneva)

• Nov 9, 2015: Cython: Extending Python with C (Materials) (Ariel Rokem)

• Nov 16, 2015: Scikit-Learn: Machine Learning in Python (Materials) (Jake VanderPlas)

• Nov 23, 2015: Xray and Dask (notebook) (Anthony Arendt)

• Nov 30, 2015: Bayesian Analysis with Python (notebook - solution) (Dan Foreman-Mackey)

• Dec 7, 2015: Python and Social Networks (notebook) (Jose Manuel Magallanes)