It seems like most of what they do is biostatistics/bioinformatics. I would
show them PyCall and RCall. Knowing that you easily have all of those
libraries (and your previous libraries) is great. Also show them the
JuliaStats stuff.
In fact, ask them what they'd want to add to Julia if they ha
Hate to sound like a curmudgeon, but language evangelism frequently
backfires, and if it is coming from a person not working in a particular
problem domain, the best you can expect is a shrug. Which is fair I
guess, "I don't know what you are doing but I am sure you would find
language X a good mat
I think that the key is to take an informative approach rather than a
forceful one. If people are happy using whatever they're currently using,
don't try to force them to change. There are, however, usually people who
are in a great deal of pain trying to solve the problems they're tackling
with th
@Chris: thanks for the tips!
@Tamas: oh I know what you mean, and don't worry, I'm definitely not
planning on telling these people how they should do their research! But as
a counterpoint: they also are so focused and busy dealing with their
research problems that they don't really have the tim
