On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:31 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sage-Devel, > > Last year in January 2010, there were 1580 messages on sage-devel. > This year, in January 2011, there have so far been only 604 messages. > > What are people working on?
One thing I've been working on very recently is writing scripts to parse csv files derived from xsl files. The data can be fed into Sage and analyzed using the graph theory functionality of Sage. These kinds of things can be done using commercial products but I try not to use them as I find them annoying to use and over-priced. There are two sources for the csv files, but in each case they arise from an xls spreadsheet. One is an FBR database of activities of some animal rights groups (I hope to get paid during the summer for basically helping with data mining of some sociology and polysci databases). Mostly it is a matter of writing simply Python scripts, which to me is a lot of fun. I'm not seeing any patterns yet that I could use for a more general Sage package though. At some point fairly soon I'm going to need to write some pedagogically-oriented digital steganography programs. (Embed a simple short message into a small image, probably regarded as a matrix over ZZ/8ZZ visualized using Sage's matrix plot command.) I don't think Sage has anything like that yet and it might be a cool thing to have. > > Besides writing code on top of Sage for number theory related projects > (which goes into http://code.google.com/p/purplesage/), I've mainly > been "mulling over" (but not actually writing code) what's going to > happen with making the power of Sage available over the web in some > highly-scalable manner. I would really like to kick into gear the > recent idea for evaluating a "single block of code" very robustly, > since many other tools could build on that. There was a lot of > discussion about this a week or two ago, but nobody popped up and did > all the work for me, which suggests I should stop being lazy and > actually write some code. Also, a lot of this problem is really > about how to setup a solution in the particular environment of the > sage.math cluster, which few people have access to. > > If every person reading responded with a paragraph about what they've > been up to related to sage this month, then maybe we could get to 1000 > messages by the end of the month! > > -- William > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
