<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-06-15 9:57 GMT+02:00 Kiko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kikocorreoso@gmail.com" target="_blank">kikocorreoso@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-">2017-06-15 9:43 GMT+02:00 Gael Varoquaux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org" target="_blank">gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org</a><wbr>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">+1<br>
<br>
In my experience, there is a lack of deep understanding of numpy works,<br>
and people are happy to learn.<br>
<br>
Gaël<br>
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 09:38:08AM +0200, Jaime Fernández del Río wrote:<br>
> I ended up going to the PyData event in Barcelona last month and running a<br>
> workshop there. The notebook I used can be found here:<br>
<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/jaimefrio/pydatabcn2017/tree/master/taking_numpy_in_stride" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/jaimefrio/p<wbr>ydatabcn2017/tree/master/takin<wbr>g_numpy_in_stride</a><br>
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> I was afraid that the content would be too technical, but all the feedback I<br>
> got from attendees was that they very much enjoyed it and want more of this<br>
> deep technical dives into the belly of the beast.<br></span></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​When the content is deeply technical and the teacher can really convey its more hidden details, that says a lot about the teacher :)​  We routinely have very good feedback from a similar tutorial run by Stéfan van der Walt at our ASPP annual event:</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/ASPP/2016_numpy">https://github.com/ASPP/2016_numpy</a></font><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​but again, this is just a proof of another top-notch teacher in action.​</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>
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> Of course IRL, contrary to the internet, it is easier to approach someone to<br>
> tell them you like what they presented, than to tell them they suck. So maybe<br>
> this is just a biased illusion, but until proven wrong I am encouraging anyone<br>
> with the knowledge and the opportunity to go ahead and organize a similar<br>
> workshop in any conference they go to.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Jaime, as you know I was there and I really enjoyed the workshop (and the talk). I've also received positive comments from others there. <br><br>Maybe it is not and ad-hoc workshop for a PyData these days where all the buzzwords are Spark, TensorFlow, DeepWhatever,..., but, again, I think it was great and it was one of my reasons to go to PyData Barcelona.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​Exactly, and IMO it is precisely this balance between teaching fundamentals and new technologies what makes a conference to ​stand out and fullfill different expectations.  And I must say that PyData Barcelona was pretty good at that.</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​Francesc​</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the workshop.<br></div><span class="gmail-"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>
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> Jaime<br>
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> P.S. I also got a chance to catch up with Francesc Alted and Travis Oliphant,<br>
> which is always great!<br>
--<br>
</span>    Gael Varoquaux<br>
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