FWIW, I think going after the "data analyst" community is a losing bet for Julia until a few more years have passed. The R community contains very few developers, so most of the R community couldn't possibly benefit from a young language that needs develepors, not users. It's a bad relationship in both directions, because the R folks don't get something useful out of the Julia language in its current state and the Julia folks don't get something useful from the R folks, who generally show up wanting to use code rather than write it.
-- John On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:52 AM, Sorami Hisamoto <therem...@gmail.com> wrote: > This time we had around 40 participants, about the same as the last > event (JuliaTokyo #1) back in July. > > We had audiences from mixed backgrounds; physics, finance, > bioinformatics, adtech, marketing and web engineering to name a few. > > It seems the biggest cluster of people are from R community, people > doing various data analysis. There's a monthly R meetup in Japan > called "Tokyo.R", where nearly 100 people attend each time, and we do > see "Julia" come up in the talks quite often in recent events. > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/r-study-tokyo > > However these data analysis people are not so satisfied with Julia as > a quick replacement of R yet, because of the lack of packages and > documentations. > > The difference between that R meetup and our Julia meetup is that > participants in latter are generally more interested and familiar with > programming. > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote: >> Thanks for the summary. How was the turnout? I have been noticing lots of >> Japanese tweets on julia too lately. Do send the summaries - they are fun to >> read! >> >> -viral >> >> >> On Saturday, September 27, 2014 7:16:27 PM UTC+5:30, ther...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Today we had our 2nd Julia meetup in Japan, called "JuliaTokyo #2". >>> >>> Here's the list of presentation slides; >>> http://juliatokyo.connpass.com/event/8010/presentation/ >>> >>> --- >>> >>> JuliaTokyo #2 Timetable in English >>> >>> # Main Talks >>> 1. Introductory Session - @sorami >>> 2. Julia in the Corporation - @QuantixResearch >>> 3. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Method with Julia - @bicycle1885 >>> 4. DataFrames.jl - @weda_654 >>> 5. Parallel Computing with Julia - @sfchaos >>> 6. Toolbox for Julia Development - @yomichi_137 >>> >>> # Lightning Talks >>> 1. MeCab.jl (MeCab: Japanese morphological tokenizer) - @chezou >>> 2. Review of v0.3 release note - yoshifumi_seki >>> 3. Using BinDeps.jl - @r9y9 >>> 4. Julia Language Anime Character - @kimrin >>> >>> --- >>> >>> We had a survey for the participants on what kind of languages they use on >>> a daily basis. 81 answers (multiple choices allowed), and here's the result; >>> >>> rank, language, #people >>> 01. Python - 50 >>> 02. R - 36 >>> 03. Java - 25 >>> 04. Ruby - 20 >>> 04. C++ - 20 >>> 05. Other - 19 >>> 06. Excel - 18 >>> 07. C - 15 >>> 08. Julia - 14 >>> 09. Visual Basic - 6 >>> 09. Perl - 6 >>> 09. Matlab / Octave - 6 >>> 09. Scala - 6 >>> 10. Fortran - 2 >>> 10. Clojure - 2 >>> 11. F# - 1 >>> >>> --- >>> >>> It seems that Julia is slowly gaining its popularity in Japan too! >>> >>> - sorami >>> >>> >>> btw, the name "JuliaTokyo" is from "Juliana's Tokyo", THE most famous >>> disco in Japan back in early 90s. >>> >>
