This time we had around 40 participants, about the same as the last event (JuliaTokyo #1) back in July.
We had audiences from mixed backgrounds; physics, finance, bioinformatics, adtech, marketing and web engineering to name a few. It seems the biggest cluster of people are from R community, people doing various data analysis. There's a monthly R meetup in Japan called "Tokyo.R", where nearly 100 people attend each time, and we do see "Julia" come up in the talks quite often in recent events. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/r-study-tokyo However these data analysis people are not so satisfied with Julia as a quick replacement of R yet, because of the lack of packages and documentations. The difference between that R meetup and our Julia meetup is that participants in latter are generally more interested and familiar with programming. On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Viral Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >> >> --- >> >> 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. >> >
