Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-19 Thread Anne Dwyer
Gael, Actually, I didn't know I was considering sprints. I just got caught up in the message thread. I am just interested in learning more and getting better. What are sprints and how do you participate? Is there an event notice where I can read up on it? Anne On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:55 PM,

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-18 Thread Anne Dwyer
Yes, I do. But unfortunately, I have two teenagers, a husband and a job. And I don't have a passport which, I know, makes me...I'm not sure what. It's just really hard to get away for any length of time but if something was close Anne Dwyer On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Stéfan van der

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-18 Thread Olivier Grisel
2013/4/18 Anne Dwyer anne.p.dw...@gmail.com: Yes, I do. But unfortunately, I have two teenagers, a husband and a job. And I don't have a passport which, I know, makes me...I'm not sure what. It's just really hard to get away for any length of time but if something was close I am sure

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-18 Thread Nelle Varoquaux
Hi Anne, You may be able to find a local user group near your place: in fact, there's a pretty famous scientific python developper working in michigan state university: maybe he knows about scientific python events happening in this area. I don't know him personnally, but I can give you his

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-18 Thread John Novak
Hi Anne and all, I haven't really been paying close attention to the mailing list, so I just noticed all this discussion about Michigan just now. I for one am in Michigan at MSU, so clear not everyone is from Europe. I too have heard that there is a pretty famous scientific python developer

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-18 Thread Jacob Vanderplas
Anne, I'm not aware of any bigger Python conferences in that part of the US any time soon. PyCon 2014 is going to be in Montreal, which is slightly closer to MI (but still a ten hour drive, which probably doesn't help). If you need to stay local, you can often find Python meetups in your own

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-18 Thread David Reed
Maybe a little closer than Montreal, there will be a PyData Boston July 28/29 On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Jacob Vanderplas jake...@cs.washington.edu wrote: Anne, I'm not aware of any bigger Python conferences in that part of the US any time soon. PyCon 2014 is going to be in

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-18 Thread Anne Dwyer
John, We do have a local Python meetup here in the Detroit area but it is a very diverse group and very few use Python for data analysis. We also have a Predictive Analytics meetup with local professionals. But everyone uses different tools to analyze data. We are working on the Kaggle Titanic

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-18 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:45:28AM -0400, Anne Dwyer wrote: Yes, I do. But unfortunately, I have two teenagers, a husband and a job. And I don't have a passport which, I know, makes me...I'm not sure what. Well, thanks a for even considering sprint on scikit-learn with two teenagers (or is the

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Peter Prettenhofer
That's great - congratulations Olivier! Definitely, no pressure ;-) 2013/4/17 Ronnie Ghose ronnie.gh...@gmail.com wow :O congrats On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mathieu Blondel math...@mblondel.orgwrote: Very well-deserved. Congrats! On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Gael Varoquaux

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Gilles Louppe
Congratulations are in order :-) On 17 April 2013 08:06, Peter Prettenhofer peter.prettenho...@gmail.comwrote: That's great - congratulations Olivier! Definitely, no pressure ;-) 2013/4/17 Ronnie Ghose ronnie.gh...@gmail.com wow :O congrats On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mathieu

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Brian Holt
Congratulations Olivier! On Apr 17, 2013 7:13 AM, Gilles Louppe g.lou...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations are in order :-) On 17 April 2013 08:06, Peter Prettenhofer peter.prettenho...@gmail.comwrote: That's great - congratulations Olivier! Definitely, no pressure ;-) 2013/4/17

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Wei LI
Congrats! Proud of you :) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Gilles Louppe g.lou...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations are in order :-) On 17 April 2013 08:06, Peter Prettenhofer peter.prettenho...@gmail.comwrote: That's great - congratulations Olivier! Definitely, no pressure ;-)

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Andreas Mueller
Congrats Olivier :) I'm sure it will be awesome! Too bad I can't be there (again :-/) Nice photo btw ;) -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Jaques Grobler
Big congrats Olivier! 2013/4/17 Wei LI li...@ee.cuhk.edu.hk Congrats! Proud of you :) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Gilles Louppe g.lou...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations are in order :-) On 17 April 2013 08:06, Peter Prettenhofer peter.prettenho...@gmail.comwrote: That's great

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Olivier Grisel
Thanks all! BTW, it might be time to announce that we will also have scikit-learn sprint during the last 2 SciPy days. AFAIK, Gael, Jake and I will be there. Any other takers? -- Olivier -- Precog is a next-generation

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Nelle Varoquaux
Thanks all! BTW, it might be time to announce that we will also have scikit-learn sprint during the last 2 SciPy days. AFAIK, Gael, Jake and I will be there. Any other takers? I might be there for the sprints. -- Olivier

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Anne Dwyer
Olivier, I live way over in Michigan in the middle of the US. Are there any SciPy events being planned within driving distance from me? Anne Dwyer On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Olivier Grisel olivier.gri...@ensta.orgwrote: Thanks all! BTW, it might be time to announce that we will also

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Andreas Mueller
On 04/17/2013 03:27 PM, Anne Dwyer wrote: Olivier, I live way over in Michigan in the middle of the US. Are there any SciPy events being planned within driving distance from me? You do realize that everybody (excluding Jake) comes over from Europe, right?

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Jacob Vanderplas
One spring break during college, I drove from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Austin, TX ;) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Anne Dwyer anne.p.dw...@gmail.com wrote: Olivier, I live way over in Michigan in the middle of the US. Are there any SciPy events being planned within driving distance from

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-17 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Andreas Mueller amuel...@ais.uni-bonn.de wrote: You do realize that everybody (excluding Jake) comes over from Europe, right? ...and sometimes even from the jungles of Africa. Stéfan

[Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-16 Thread Gael Varoquaux
I have been somewhat living under a rock lately, so I am not sure that it has been around this mailing list: @ogrisel is giving a keynote at scipy this year. http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/keynotes.php Hurray! Congratulations Olivier

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-16 Thread Mathieu Blondel
Very well-deserved. Congrats! On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Gael Varoquaux gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org wrote: I have been somewhat living under a rock lately, so I am not sure that it has been around this mailing list: @ogrisel is giving a keynote at scipy this year.

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Our own Olivier Grisel giving a scipy keynote

2013-04-16 Thread Ronnie Ghose
wow :O congrats On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mathieu Blondel math...@mblondel.orgwrote: Very well-deserved. Congrats! On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Gael Varoquaux gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org wrote: I have been somewhat living under a rock lately, so I am not sure that it has