A quick report on the conference: There were some nice talks about the open source projects Jupyter (related to IPython) and Scikit-learn. Wes McKinney (creator of Pandas) gave an inspiring talk about the need for a universal C/C++ dataframe. There's a cool open source project H20 which does deep learning, but it's hard to tell how "open source" it is, because it's mostly being developed by a single company.
My main complaint is that despite the conference being called "Open Data Science", there wasn't enough emphasis on open source. It felt like there was a heavy corporate presence. The keynote talks were mostly corporate people doing self promotion or talking about the data science career. There weren't any open source software speakers featured in the keynotes. The talks themselves were a mixed bag in quality. There weren't any hack rooms for working on open source projects and the conference could have been organized better. There were some rooms that were half empty and other rooms that were overfilled. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Daniel Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll be at the workshops this weekend, and back in Boston for the > conference. Will report back! > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:53 AM, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I inquired on Twitter and got the following: >> >> https://twitter.com/ctitusbrown/status/590500175094763520 >> >> Seems like Gael Varoquax and Wes McKinney are going, which says good >> things about the content. >> >> If you go, report back and let us know! >> >> best, >> --titus >> >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:50:09AM -0400, Terri Yu wrote: >> > I live in Massachusetts, so I was planning to go for at least a day. I >> > wasn't planning on going to the pre-conference workshops because it's 3 >> > hours one-way for me to get to Boston. >> > >> > I would be curious to know if anyone else is going or if they know >> anything >> > about this conference. I've seen quite a few advertisements for the >> Open >> > Data Science Conference, but it's completely new and I don't know >> anything >> > about it or who the organizers are. >> > >> > Terri >> > >> > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Daniel Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Is anyone going to be going to the Open Data Science Conference in >> Boston >> > > [1]? >> > > If so, is anyone also going to the pre-conference workshops this >> weekend? >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > [1] http://opendatascicon.com/ >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Discuss mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > >> > > >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> >> -- >> C. Titus Brown, [email protected] >> > >
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