Hi Heather, I use Python and R for R&D on financial and textual data, typically dealing with a medium amount of data, 100's-1000's of GBs, using a small cluster or at least multiple cores. I would be excited to meet up, and I agree it makes sense within the context of an existing Portland hackathon. It would be fun to meet some other people that are using Python to make data-driven insights and to learn some new ways to do things from each other.
As far as your projects go, there are lots of options for #1 depending on the nature of your problem, but you could get started by trying out the parallel python module (pp): http://www.parallelpython.com/ Thanks, Ryan On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Igal Koshevoy <[email protected]>wrote: > So on tutoring.... > > If there's a broader interest, it'd be easy to pick an evening a month > and mob it with Python enthusiasts -- one of the weekly hackathons > would be an easy choice: > * NoPoCoNi in N on Mondays: http://calagator.org/events/1250461350 > * Jelly in NW on Mondays: http://calagator.org/events/1250461443 > * SEPoCoNi in SE on Thursdays: http://calagator.org/events/1250461463 > * Weekly Hackathon in SE on Thursdays: > http://calagator.org/events/1250461264 > > Or at the Ruby Brigade, we've been running dedicated monthly > Beginners' Meetup events focused on providing friendly, personalized > coaching, debugging, etc. These are easy to organize because there's > no agenda, speakers or topics -- people just show up, ask for help, > and get helped. > > I think these would be fun, easy ways to share the joy of Python with > others. > > Cheers, > > -igal > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20111020/bf793049/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
