[Chicago] ChiPy Call for September 10th Meeting Speaker

[Adam Forsyth]

We're going to make a final decision on location tonight, stay tuned!

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tanya,
>
> Where is the ChiPy meeting this Thursday evening?  I checked the website,
> but the location of the meeting had not yet been decided.
>
> When I think of "big data analysis" I think of something like, "Okay, read
> all these data from an Excel spreadsheet into a huge Python array or
> matrix, and then construct various Q-Q plots to see if the data are
> normally distributed, exponentially distributed or something else, and then
> determine the parameters of the distribution".  In other words, when I hear
> "big data" I'm really thinking of a mixture of statistics and computer
> programming.  Is that correct or is my "definition" a little too narrow?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
>
> Douglas.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Tanya Schlusser <tanya at tickel.net> wrote:
>
>> Is anyone interested in using anaconda to do machine learning?
>>>
>>
>> Haha, yes Joshua, __everyone__ is interested in machine learning! Usually
>> we get 100+ attendees if one of the topics is big data / machine learning.
>>
>> If your 'setup scipy + Jupyter' talk is ready for this Thursday, then
>> awesome! If not we'd still love to hear it next month...
>>
>> ... Repost of the location to submit talks ...
>>
>>> > If you'd like to submit a topic, you can reply to this email or email
>>> me
>>> > at directly joe.jasinski at gmail.com.   At some point, we'll need you to
>>> > fill out the talk proposal form so we can get your talk on the
>>> schedule.
>>> > http://www.chipy.org/meetings/topics/propose
>>>
>>
>>
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