Creating a culture of Computation - Scientific, Social and Humanitarian

10:00 AM - 10:25 AM on July 16, 2016, Room CR7

Evan Misshula

Audience level:
novice
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Ap-ZjZS7s

Description

The Python User Group at Queens College seeks to broadly distribute knowledge and enthusiasm about data and inquiry facillitated by compuation. The official languages of the computer science department remain Java and C++ which certainly have their place. However, we are trying to make Python the /lingua franca/ of student research. Please come to hear our triumphs and failures. The presentation will be given emacs org mode with an IPython shell and a Jupyter notebook.

Abstract

The Python User Group at Queens College seeks to broadly distribute knowledge and enthusiasm about data and inquiry facillitated by compuation. The official languages of the computer science department remain Java and C++ which certainly have their place. However, we are trying to make Python the /lingua franca/ of student research. Please come to hear our triumphs and failures. The presentation will be given emacs org mode with an IPython shell and a Jupyter notebook.