Hi Heather,<div><br></div><div>I use Python and R for R&D on financial and textual data, typically dealing with a medium amount of data, 100's-1000's of GBs, using a small cluster or at least multiple cores. I would be excited to meet up, and I agree it makes sense within the context of an existing Portland hackathon. It would be fun to meet some other people that are using Python to make data-driven insights and to learn some new ways to do things from each other.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As far as your projects go, there are lots of options for #1 depending on the nature of your problem, but you could get started by trying out the parallel python module (pp): <a href="http://www.parallelpython.com/">http://www.parallelpython.com/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Ryan</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Igal Koshevoy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:igal@pragmaticraft.com">igal@pragmaticraft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">So on tutoring....<br>
<br>
If there's a broader interest, it'd be easy to pick an evening a month<br>
and mob it with Python enthusiasts -- one of the weekly hackathons<br>
would be an easy choice:<br>
* NoPoCoNi in N on Mondays: <a href="http://calagator.org/events/1250461350" target="_blank">http://calagator.org/events/1250461350</a><br>
* Jelly in NW on Mondays: <a href="http://calagator.org/events/1250461443" target="_blank">http://calagator.org/events/1250461443</a><br>
* SEPoCoNi in SE on Thursdays: <a href="http://calagator.org/events/1250461463" target="_blank">http://calagator.org/events/1250461463</a><br>
* Weekly Hackathon in SE on Thursdays: <a href="http://calagator.org/events/1250461264" target="_blank">http://calagator.org/events/1250461264</a><br>
<br>
Or at the Ruby Brigade, we've been running dedicated monthly<br>
Beginners' Meetup events focused on providing friendly, personalized<br>
coaching, debugging, etc. These are easy to organize because there's<br>
no agenda, speakers or topics -- people just show up, ask for help,<br>
and get helped.<br>
<br>
I think these would be fun, easy ways to share the joy of Python with others.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
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-igal<br>
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