[Chicago] ChiPy Call for September 10th Meeting Speaker

[Lewit, Douglas]

It's got Kali Linux on it, right?!   :-)

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All ,
> I have something special for this chipy meeting! This is going to be the
> best meeting ever!
> Hint it's a dvd!
> Sincerely
> Joshua Herman
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 3:33 PM Adam Forsyth <adam at adamforsyth.net> wrote:
>
>> We're going to make a final decision on location tonight, stay tuned!
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tanya,
>>>
>>> Where is the ChiPy meeting this Thursday evening?  I checked the
>>> website, but the location of the meeting had not yet been decided.
>>>
>>> When I think of "big data analysis" I think of something like, "Okay,
>>> read all these data from an Excel spreadsheet into a huge Python array or
>>> matrix, and then construct various Q-Q plots to see if the data are
>>> normally distributed, exponentially distributed or something else, and then
>>> determine the parameters of the distribution".  In other words, when I hear
>>> "big data" I'm really thinking of a mixture of statistics and computer
>>> programming.  Is that correct or is my "definition" a little too narrow?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Douglas.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Tanya Schlusser <tanya at tickel.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is anyone interested in using anaconda to do machine learning?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Haha, yes Joshua, __everyone__ is interested in machine learning!
>>>> Usually we get 100+ attendees if one of the topics is big data / machine
>>>> learning.
>>>>
>>>> If your 'setup scipy + Jupyter' talk is ready for this Thursday, then
>>>> awesome! If not we'd still love to hear it next month...
>>>>
>>>> ... Repost of the location to submit talks ...
>>>>
>>>>> > If you'd like to submit a topic, you can reply to this email or
>>>>> email me
>>>>> > at directly joe.jasinski at gmail.com.   At some point, we'll need you
>>>>> to
>>>>> > fill out the talk proposal form so we can get your talk on the
>>>>> schedule.
>>>>> > http://www.chipy.org/meetings/topics/propose
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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