At PyCon 2015, I had the pleasure of attending the Ally Skills Workshop, organized by @adainitiative (named after Ada Lovelace).
The workshop was a 3 hour strongly guided discussion centering around 4-6 person group discussion of short scenarios. There's a guide to running them here, although I personally would not …
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A colleague just e-mailed me to ask me how I felt about journal impact factor being such a big part of the Academic Ranking of World Universities - they say that 20% of the ranking weight comes from # of papers published in Nature and Science. So what do I think?
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I would like to build a community site. Or, more precisely, I would like to recognize, collect, and collate information from an already existing but rather diffuse community.
The focus of the community will be academic data science, or "data driven discovery". This is spurred largely by the recent selection …
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There were lots of problems with PyCon this year. For example, the free, hi-speed wifi made you log in each day. And it was in Montreal, so one of my foreign students couldn't come because he didn't get a visa in time. The company booths were not centrally located. And …
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Note: This is a proposal being submitted by Tracy Teal (@tracykteal) for PyCon '14. I suggested she post it here for feedback, because she does not have her own blog. --titus
TITLE: How I learned to stop worrying and love matplotlib
CATEGORY: Science
DURATION: I prefer a 30 minute time …
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