Hi, We had a few events in Japan recently;
-- 1. Book We wrote an article about Julia in Japanese. The article is in a book about R, "データサイエンティスト養成読本 R活用編" (literally means "Data Scientist Training Textbook: R Language edition") . Here's the link to Amazon Japan; http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4774170577 -- 2. JapanR JapanR is the biggest R user event in Japan. https://atnd.org/events/58624 This year we had around 250 attendees (including ustream). In the event we had a panel discussion on different languages (R, Python, Excel, SAS, & Julia). I was surprise to see that about half of the attendees didn't know about Julia. -- 3. Advent Calendar We are doing "Julia Advent Calendar", where someone writes an article on Julia for the 25 days of December. http://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2014/julialang Here's the line up in English; Dec 01: "Learn Julia in X Minutes" bicycle1885 Dec 02: "Julia v0.4.0-dev" yomichi_137 Dec 03: "Julia Environment Setup - 2014 ver." chezou Dec 04: "Let's Program in Unicode" bicycle1885 Dec 05: "Low-level Julia (LLVM IR & Native Code)" kimrin Dec 06: "Presented 'MaCab.jl' at JapanR" chezou Dec 07: "Introduction to The Classic Compiler Theories" kimrin Dec 08: "Running Stan.jl on Windows 8.1" berobero11 Dec 09: "Common Gotcha around ccall Pointer" r9y9 Dec 10: "NumericExtensions.jl / NumericFuns.jl" yomichi_137 Dec 11: "Releasing The Packages via REPL" chezou Dec 12: "100 Julia Q&As for Pythonista" bicycle1885 Dec 13: "Reading 'Introduction to Julia'" chezou *referring to the book above Dec 14: "Construction and Evaluation of Prediction Models by Julia" sfchaos Dec 15: "On Julia DataFrame - #1" weda_654 Dec 16: "Doing What I Usually Do in R with Julia" dichika Dec 17: "Building A Spam Classifier with Julia" yutajuly Dec 18: "Accelerating randn" yomichi_137 Dec 19: "(TBA)" sorami Dec 20: "(TBA)" ysks3n Dec 21: "Adding Julia to The Quine Relay" mametter Dec 22: "(something related to build?)" iizukak Dec 23: "(language comparisson?)" nezuq Dec 24: "Binding the Libraries Written in C" chezou Dec 25: "(kimrin)" kimrin -- Hope these events will make more people in Japan interested in Julia! - sorami
