Thanks for the summary. How was the turnout? I have been noticing lots of Japanese tweets on julia too lately. Do send the summaries - they are fun to read!
-viral On Saturday, September 27, 2014 7:16:27 PM UTC+5:30, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all, > > Today we had our 2nd Julia meetup in Japan, called "JuliaTokyo #2". > > Here's the list of presentation slides; > http://juliatokyo.connpass.com/event/8010/presentation/ > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fjuliatokyo.connpass.com%2Fevent%2F8010%2Fpresentation%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEEUyZeQ6QnUb0deaOLJy_oM8oXJQ> > > --- > > JuliaTokyo #2 Timetable in English > > # Main Talks > 1. Introductory Session - @sorami > 2. Julia in the Corporation - @QuantixResearch > 3. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Method with Julia - @bicycle1885 > 4. DataFrames.jl - @weda_654 > 5. Parallel Computing with Julia - @sfchaos > 6. Toolbox for Julia Development - @yomichi_137 > > # Lightning Talks > 1. MeCab.jl (MeCab: Japanese morphological tokenizer) - @chezou > 2. Review of v0.3 release note - yoshifumi_seki > 3. Using BinDeps.jl - @r9y9 > 4. Julia Language Anime Character - @kimrin > > --- > > We had a survey for the participants on what kind of languages they use on > a daily basis. 81 answers (multiple choices allowed), and here's the result; > > rank, language, #people > 01. Python - 50 > 02. R - 36 > 03. Java - 25 > 04. Ruby - 20 > 04. C++ - 20 > 05. Other - 19 > 06. Excel - 18 > 07. C - 15 > 08. Julia - 14 > 09. Visual Basic - 6 > 09. Perl - 6 > 09. Matlab / Octave - 6 > 09. Scala - 6 > 10. Fortran - 2 > 10. Clojure - 2 > 11. F# - 1 > > --- > > It seems that Julia is slowly gaining its popularity in Japan too! > > - sorami > > > btw, the name "JuliaTokyo" is from "Juliana's Tokyo", THE most famous > disco in Japan back in early 90s. > >
