by Admin | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog, Diversity & Inclusion (DISC)
This is a contributed post by participants in the 2017 Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Unconference. This November, almost 40 engineers, data scientists, and open source enthusiasts got together for NumFOCUS’s first Diversity and Inclusion in...
by Admin | Nov 25, 2017 | Blog, Projects
re-posted with permission from Software Carpentry My favorite tool is … IPython. IPython is a Python interpreter with added features that make it an invaluable tool for interactive coding and data exploration. IPython is most commonly taught via the Jupyter notebook,...
by Admin | Nov 21, 2017 | Blog, Projects
re-posted with permission from Software Carpentry My favourite tool is … the Jupyter Notebook. One of my favourite tools is the Jupyter notebook. I use it for teaching my students scientific computing with Python. Why I like it: Using Jupyter with the plugin RISE, I...
by Admin | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog
This post contributed by Jake Lever, a PhD student in the University of British Columbia’s Bioinformatics program. NumFOCUS was pleased to provide funding support to the hackseq17 hackathon. hackseq17: Canada’s genomics hackathon hackseq17: Canada’s genomics...
by Admin | Nov 14, 2017 | Blog, Corporate Sponsors
NumFOCUS welcomes Quantopian as our first Emerging Leader Corporate Partner, a partnership for small but growing companies who are leading by providing fiscal support to our open source projects. — Quantopian Supports Open Source by John Fawcett, CEO and founder...
