Hi all, Feel free to come by if you're around Philly!
Julia Tech Talk on Thursday, November 13 at 6:00pm at Wu and Chen Auditorium When: Thursday, November 13 <https://www.facebook.com/events/calendar/2014/November/13> at 6:00pm Where: Wu and Chen Auditorium <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wu-and-Chen-Auditorium/145368958832977> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 On Thursday, November 13th @ 6pm the Dining Philosophers will be hosting a talk on the Julia Programming language in Wu & Chen Auditorium. Julia has the elegance and familiarity of Python and Matlab, with speed close to C, and is completely open source. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in scientific and parallel computation, machine learning, data analysis, and visualization. There will be a giveaway of online JuliaBox codes for the Julia language for all attendees! Speakers: Ted Fujimoto (CIT Masters student) and Randy Zwitch (Senior Data Scientist at Comcast) Randy Zwitch is Senior Data Scientist at Comcast, researching how to improve the overall customer viewing experience using petabyte-scale tools and datasets. Randy also contributes to the R and Julia open-source communities, creating and maintaining packages primarily related to the web (HTTP requests/APIs, Server Log Parsing, Geo-Location, etc.) and database access. Abstract: Using publicly available datasets, Randy will provide an intro to machine learning using ad-hoc Julia code and via add-on packages.
