software-working-group

Materials for the UW eScience software working group meeting, Thursdays at 3 pm in the WRF Data Science Studio.

• Jan 19: Ariel Rokem: code review & discussion of popylar
• Feb 2: [cancelled]
• Feb 16: Brett Morris: astroplan
• Mar 2: Allison Smith: Thoughts on Docker for Scientific Research
• Mar 16: TBA

All are welcome to attend!

Previous Calendars

Fall 2016

This quarter we will alternate between normal working group meetings, and a Software Journal Club in which we will discuss software, design patterns, and related issues as they pertain to computational research. The Software Journal Club dates for this quarter are as follows:

• Thurs, Oct 13 2016: Jake VanderPlas, walk-through the design of the Altair library
• Thurs, Nov 3rd 2016: Rahul Biswas, TBD
• Thurs Nov 17th 2016: Joe Hellerstein, Creating reproducible spreadsheets in Jupyter
• Thurs Dec 1st 2016: Bernease Herman, General discussion of Functional Programming

January 2016

• Wed, Jan 6 - Planning
• Thur, Jan 14 - Bill (Data privacy)
• Thur, Jan 21 - Sven Dorkenwald - Scaling up 3D Non-Local Means denoising with Spark
• Thur, Jan 28 - Bernease, AWS architecture, wildfire simulation

February 2016

• Thur, Feb 4 - Sophie Clayton, code review (hosted by Bill)
• Thur, Feb 11 - Jes Ford, code review of my cluster-lensing project
• Thur, Feb 18 - Experience with Google Drive for unlimited storage, plus some tools (David Beck)
• Thur, Feb 25 -

March 2016

• Thur, Mar 3 -
• Thur, Mar 10 - SWC instructor training
• Thur, Mar 17 - Incubator presentations
• Thur, Mar 24 - TechConnect conference
• Thur, Mar 31 - Software Carpentry

April 2016

• April 7th - Joe Hellerstien, scisheet demo
• April 14th - Britta: codesign consulting/mentorship/?? feedback protocol.
• April 21st - Daniel Viragh -- Historical GIS
• April 28th - Bing Brunton -- Decoding brain signals (hacking session)