Re: [julia-users] Looking for ideas and topics to include in an introductory workshop in Julia

2015-11-20 Thread Benjamin Deonovic
If anyone in your group would be interested in MCMC check out our great tutorial on how to use our package Mamba: http://mambajl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Re: [julia-users] Looking for ideas and topics to include in an introductory workshop in Julia

2015-11-20 Thread cdm
the #MonthofJulia blog series has some readily accessible material ... there are 38 posts beginning at: http://www.juliabloggers.com/tag/monthofjulia/page/13/ some of these may provide examples from parts of Julia that one has not had reason to use in their usual interactions with Julia. b

Re: [julia-users] Looking for ideas and topics to include in an introductory workshop in Julia

2015-11-19 Thread Arin Basu
Thanks Mauro. This is excellent. Arin On Wednesday, 9 September 2015 22:12:27 UTC+12, Mauro wrote: > > Probably, the current state-of-the-art in introduction tutorials is > David Sander's: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ1y5NUD_RI&index=2&list=PLP8iPy9hna6Sdx4soiGrSefrmOPdUWixM > > > On

Re: [julia-users] Looking for ideas and topics to include in an introductory workshop in Julia

2015-11-19 Thread Arin Basu
Thanks a million Tamas. These are very helpful pointers indeed. Arin On Wednesday, 9 September 2015 22:27:16 UTC+12, Tamas Papp wrote: > > Hi Arin, > > I am planning something similar in the near future and have been > thinking about this too. Maybe you could organize your discussion around >

Re: [julia-users] Looking for ideas and topics to include in an introductory workshop in Julia

2015-09-09 Thread Tamas Papp
Hi Arin, I am planning something similar in the near future and have been thinking about this too. Maybe you could organize your discussion around the following three topics: 1. "things that work as expected" Language constructs like numbers, arrays, control flow etc, that are very similar to ot

Re: [julia-users] Looking for ideas and topics to include in an introductory workshop in Julia

2015-09-09 Thread Mauro
Probably, the current state-of-the-art in introduction tutorials is David Sander's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ1y5NUD_RI&index=2&list=PLP8iPy9hna6Sdx4soiGrSefrmOPdUWixM On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 11:55, Arin Basu wrote: > Hi All, > > I am planning to offer a workshop (about 3 hours length, but

[julia-users] Looking for ideas and topics to include in an introductory workshop in Julia

2015-09-09 Thread Arin Basu
Hi All, I am planning to offer a workshop (about 3 hours length, but can be longer, up to five hours) introducing Julia language to a group of statisticians and advanced students (biostatistics and epidemiology focus). My audience is statisticians who may be familiar with Python, C, R, SAS, SPS