Next meetup: a poll

[Daniel Szmulewicz]

Hello all,


I'm happy to announce that we've secured a date for our next meetup at Google Campus: Thursday 06 March 2014 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

We have a number of possibilities as to what our next talk should be:

First, Daniel Slutsky submitted an interesting draft for a talk on data analysis. The draft is included at the end of this mail.  

Second, we discussed at the end of our last talk the idea of a session on programming practices in Clojure based on real-world problems. If I remember correctly, we agreed that a number of members (Chen, Morri, Tzach, Daniel and myself, if my memory serves me well) would present insights we may have accumulated while working on real-world problems. Many good ideas were suggested during that discussion, and if I forgot something, please use this opportunity to voice them again. 

Finally, a special session designed to attract newcomers. We want to inject new blood in the local Clojure community, and for this we need to reach out and do special efforts to help people join and start coding in Clojure. We may and probably should draw inspiration from Clojurebridge (http://www.clojurebridge.org/), an effort with similar aims. They are preparing a curriculum, and the material will be online soon (if it's not already). They recently settled on Lighttable as the beginner's editor. You can follow the discussions here: 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clojurebridge-workshops

If we are going to do this, it is not sufficient to advertise the talk on meetup.com like usual. We would need to coordinate an effort to promote the talk in as much relevant places as possible.

 
In brief, three distinct ideas for how to proceed. 

What are your thoughts?

Thank you. 

Here is Daniel Slutsky's draft:

"A decent platform for data analysis has to satisfy various demands: 
to let the user define and change analyses in an interactive, flexible 
way; to make it simple to reproduce whole dataflows; to be 
fast; to support interaction with other software 
components and data sources; and more. 

Are all these demands, in fact, contradictory? 

From its early days, Clojure has been offering ways to meet 
the above kinds of demands, with the introduction of libraries such 
as Incanter. Importat progress has been made in the development 
of several other libraries during the last year. It might be claimed, 
that Clojure is already a decent platform for data analysis, in the sense 
suggested above. 

The talk will be a live demonstration of some data analysis 
tasks in Clojure. We will present and use some of the existing 
libraries in the areas of statistics, numerical computing, 
dataflow management and visualization. 

We will try to ask ourselves, how our methods are actually affected by 
the specific language characteristics of Clojure.

Only basic knowledge of Clojure will be assumed."

[Tzach Livyatan]

Hi Daniel

I suggest to have interleaving meeting: one time lecture, one time hands-on.

The second require less preparation, and less work.

Regarding promotions for a new comers session, maybe we can somehow publish in the local university CS mail list.

Between Bar Ilan, TAU and Raichman, I hope there are enough students interested in the subject.

If anyone know how to get to this list and students - let us know.

 

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Regards 

@TzachL

[Boris Farber]

Hi Tzach,

I get publish at IDC (Raichmann)

Boris

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[Daniel Szmulewicz]

Thank you, Tzach. 

I agree with your suggestion. 

Next meetup is going to be Daniel Slutsky's talk, after that we'll do the hands-on one. 

On the 6th of March, we'll be able to talk and agree on what exactly we will be doing, who will show what, etc. 

And we'll continue the discussion on the mailing list. 

Excellent suggestion regarding promoting in universities. Thanks Boris for the IDC channel. 

Thank you and see you soon!

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[Yoav Rubin]

Daniel,

If there's a need for Clojure related educational contents, I'll be more than happy to share the materials I prepared for the course about FP and Clojure I gave at Haifa University (and of course lecture/help lecturing).

Yoav