From christianzlong at gmail.com Wed Aug 12 05:24:16 2015 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:24:16 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] August meeting Message-ID: Hi, Here are my notes from our August meeting. thanks to everyone who came out! Christian FoxPUG meeting notes August 3, 2015 Tonight we were joined by a new person, Charles. We met first at the Appleton Civic Hackathon. He told us about the new Masters Degree in Data Science that the University of Wisconsin system is offering. After introductions, Mamadou started us off by talking about the lifecycle of GIS data. Christian talked a bit about his first month at Cisco, modernizing an old application. Nick presented an introduction to the R language and R Studio, designed for statistical analysis. He showed us a similar product from Y Hat that used Python instead of R. We talked about iPython Notebook, and its evolution in to Project Jupyter which supports multiple programming languages. It is a web-based interactive notebook viewer, where live code, text and graphics exist on the same page. If you edit the code in a cell, that cell's output changes too. Aniko walked us through some of the R code he uses for cluster analysis of plant species in his survey areas. Nick showed off some of the capabilities of R Studio, presenting some charts and map plots. He demonstrated a document in R Markdown, which combines code and graphs in a way similar to iPython Notebook. We then took a look at the web-hosted R service called Shiny. In that platform, you specify server-side R code to process the data, and client-side R code, which makes the UI interactive. We moved in to a discussion of how R approaches location data (statistically) versus how in GIS there is a lot of spatial processing of location data. Nick concluded his presentation with a demo of the leaflet.js javaScript mapping library, and showed how it was integrated in to R and R Studio. A great meeting, thanks to all who attended. Next month, the meeting will be in Appleton, on Monday, September 14. It will be a crossover event with the weekly Coder Cooperative meetings at the Appleton Makerspace. If you want more information about the weekly Coder Cooperative events, join the North East Wisconsin Slack channel. There is an active community of people on that channel, talking about technology in the Fox Valley. Also, you can follow the Fox Valley Python User Group, we're on Twitter @foxpython. Get in touch! We hope to see you at a future meeting. We're in Appleton September 14, and we're back in Oshkosh on October 5. From christianzlong at gmail.com Sun Aug 30 20:36:19 2015 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:36:19 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] September meeting Message-ID: Hi group, I was planning on doing a crossover event with the Fox Valley Python user group and the Coder Cooperative on Monday, September 14. However, I will be out of town for work that day. What do you think? Should I leave it on the schedule? Christian From christianzlong at gmail.com Sun Aug 30 22:18:22 2015 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:18:22 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] September meeting uncertainty Message-ID: I got in touch with Mike Putnam, and he said he would rather wait until I was going to be there to do our planned crossover event with FoxPUG and his weekly Coder Cooperative event in Appleton. I can't make our September 14th meeting of FoxPUG, I'll be out of town for work. So, what do you want to do? If you want to meet as scheduled on September 14, we will have to find a different venue, since Mamadou will not be there to open the room. You could meet in the hallway, there are some nice little meeting areas in the hallways in Sage hall. Or, we could cancel and pick up the regular schedule again in October. Let me know what you prefer. Christian