From christianzlong at gmail.com  Sun Apr  3 22:49:34 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 21:49:34 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Monday meeting
Message-ID: <CAEP7POqDX-g-UJwMGfayPcjp+4mHs+U2CR8mo4PTXq3Zo7jY4A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Our April meeting is on Monday, April 4. I'll talk about git merge,
rebase, and the fearsome-sounding octopus merge. And of course we have
to talk about Microsoft's recent announcement that they're bringing a
linux-compatible runtime (back?) to Windows. Bash shell 4eva. See you
there.

Christian

From christianzlong at gmail.com  Tue Apr  5 14:02:59 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 13:02:59 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] Links discussed at PUG mtg
In-Reply-To: <A075ED19-CF1B-454A-8E9C-5CBE0A282BEC@gmail.com>
References: <A075ED19-CF1B-454A-8E9C-5CBE0A282BEC@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEP7POrDPJ1bhb7eXq3=c5KEB8_ocBrSMAqfwOEzPmOQpsAC-w@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the links, Nick.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Nick Olesen <nickolaus.olesen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Feather -
>
> http://blog.rstudio.org/2016/03/29/feather/
>
>
>
> Flood Simulation-
>
> https://projects.propublica.org/houston/
>
> -About the process
>
> https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/how-we-made-hell-and-high-water
>
>

From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Apr  7 18:02:26 2016
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:02:26 -0400
Subject: [FoxPUG] foxpug domains
Message-ID: <5706D8F2.9080306@unc.edu>

Hi FoxPUGers. Long time no see. I miss you. I'm really happy to see that 
monthly meetings are humming right along.

Hey, I've got these three domains, foxpug.org/com/net that are going to 
expire June 19, and I really don't want to pay for them anymore. If 
somebody wants them, maybe to point at http://foxpython.tumblr.com, or 
to use for their handy email forwards (you can set up info at foxpug.org to 
forward to wherever you want, even multiple email addresses), then 
please let me know before they expire and I will transfer them to you!

Send inquiries directly to me at cbc at unc.edu rather than reply to this list.

In other news, we're having a PyData conference September 14-16 down in 
my neck of the woods at IBM RTP. It's a celebration of Python in data 
science with a day of tutorials and two days of keynotes, session talks, 
and lightning talks with evening social events. We have a capacity of 
400 people. It comes with all day catering. Registration and the call 
for talk and tutorial proposals will be open soon. I'll let you know 
when that happens. Speakers get in free. And any visiting FoxPUGers will 
be well taken care of.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
(919) 599-3530

From christianzlong at gmail.com  Thu Apr  7 18:28:51 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:28:51 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] foxpug domains
In-Reply-To: <5706D8F2.9080306@unc.edu>
References: <5706D8F2.9080306@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <CAEP7POqt28pYqQP+C24isJ+iFqFW8NRfi5nG2TXKVNvLdYZqBQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Chris,

Thanks for getting in touch, it's good to hear from you. It would be
nice to have those domains. I'll follow up with you on that off list.

That conference sounds interesting. Do you have a link? I'm working
remotely for Cisco now, and I have some colleagues in the RTP area.

Christian

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
> Hi FoxPUGers. Long time no see. I miss you. I'm really happy to see that
> monthly meetings are humming right along.
>
> Hey, I've got these three domains, foxpug.org/com/net that are going to
> expire June 19, and I really don't want to pay for them anymore. If somebody
> wants them, maybe to point at http://foxpython.tumblr.com, or to use for
> their handy email forwards (you can set up info at foxpug.org to forward to
> wherever you want, even multiple email addresses), then please let me know
> before they expire and I will transfer them to you!
>
> Send inquiries directly to me at cbc at unc.edu rather than reply to this list.
>
> In other news, we're having a PyData conference September 14-16 down in my
> neck of the woods at IBM RTP. It's a celebration of Python in data science
> with a day of tutorials and two days of keynotes, session talks, and
> lightning talks with evening social events. We have a capacity of 400
> people. It comes with all day catering. Registration and the call for talk
> and tutorial proposals will be open soon. I'll let you know when that
> happens. Speakers get in free. And any visiting FoxPUGers will be well taken
> care of.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
> UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
> 100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
> (919) 599-3530
> _______________________________________________
> FoxPUG mailing list
> FoxPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug

From christianzlong at gmail.com  Thu Apr  7 18:41:10 2016
From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:41:10 -0500
Subject: [FoxPUG] April Meeting Notes
Message-ID: <CAEP7POoOFG_hVPS5JYHKGP-qFzvP_3=NU_saOtxqy8GTsr9g5g@mail.gmail.com>

I posted the notes to the Tumblr, but here they are for the list too.

Christian

---



It was a very interesting meeting this month. Sorry I haven't posted
the meeting notes from February and March. They were good meetings
too, you'll have to take my word for it.

This month, Mamadou gave us a report on his trip to the [American
Association of Geographers annual
meeting](http://www.aag.org/annualmeeting) in San Francisco. He talked
about the changes in GIS software and data storage. In particular he
talked about the new [Google Earth
Engine](https://earthengine.google.com/). This is a new initiative
from Google that provides an api to large, high-quality geospatial
data sets. Previously, this data was hard to access, and very
expensive. Also, Google Earth Engine provides the [Google Earth Engine
API](https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/), a programming
environment where you can run your analysis in JavaScript and Python
on their cloud infrastructure.

One interesting example of what is possible with this new platform is
the [Google Earth Engine Timelapse
site](https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/). Zoom in on a part of
the earth and see how it has changed over the last 30 years. They have
some demo areas, I watched the growth of Shanghai on loop for a long
time.

Following on from that discussion, Mamadou told us about the field of
Remote Sensing, and explained how it is different from GIS. Remote
Sensing is about gathering data from satellites and other platforms.
He talked about detecting the fingerprint of different kinds of
features on the ground, based on where in the electromagnetic spectrum
they radiate.

Nick talked about a new initiative in data science called
[Feather](http://blog.rstudio.org/2016/03/29/feather/). It's a
collaboration between R's Hadley Wickham and Wes McKinney, author of
Python's Pandas data analysis package. They got together to come up
with a common, standard on-disk representation format for both R and
Pandas data frames. That allows for easy interoperability between
Pandas and R in a data pipeline, without having to serialize to csv or
json.

We talked about the
[new](http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/)
[Microsoft](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about)
and HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY? Nick told us about Microsoft's
["Sand Dance"](https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/03/22/discover-stories-within-data-using-sanddance-a-new-microsoft-research-project/)
visualization project.

For our May meeting, Mamadou is planning to give the presentation he
gave at the AAG conference in San Francisco. The topic is flooding -
he is developing a systematic way to identify flood risk in large
urban areas in developing countries. The next meeting is on Monday,
May 2 at 7pm. [Directions](http://foxpython.tumblr.com/meetings). We
hope to see you there!

Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/foxpython) or join the
[mailing list](https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpug) for
updates.

From cbc at unc.edu  Fri Apr  8 10:50:38 2016
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:50:38 -0400
Subject: [FoxPUG] foxpug domains
In-Reply-To: <CAEP7POqt28pYqQP+C24isJ+iFqFW8NRfi5nG2TXKVNvLdYZqBQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5706D8F2.9080306@unc.edu>
 <CAEP7POqt28pYqQP+C24isJ+iFqFW8NRfi5nG2TXKVNvLdYZqBQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5707C53E.9080706@unc.edu>

On 4/7/16 6:28 PM, Christian Long wrote:
> Do you have a link?

All I have right now is http://pydata.org because NumFOCUS seems to be 
having some difficulty getting a new instance of Symposion, the just 
plain awful Django conference CMS application, off the ground. I'm led 
to believe that "any day now" http://pydata.org/carolinas16 will be 
available, though. FoxPUG will be amongst the first to know because you 
know Fox Valley has a special place in my heart.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
(919) 599-3530