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Inclusive Approaches to Recruitment & Outreach — Notes from the DISC Unconference
This is a contributed post by participants in the 2017 Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Unconference. Read our prior posts in the series: Starting D&I Conversations at Work Getting Started With Open Source A Directory to Increase...
NumFOCUS 2017 Highlights Reel: What Did You Achieve?
2017 has been an outstanding year for NumFOCUS in a number of ways. Everything we're able to accomplish is thanks to you, our community of supporters. In this post, we highlight a few notable stories from the year showcasing NumFOCUS's growth and...
A Directory to Increase Diversity & Inclusion — Notes from the DISC Unconference
This is a contributed post by participants in the 2017 Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Unconference. Read our prior posts in the series: Starting D&I Conversations at Work Getting Started With Open Source Creating a directory of support...
Double Your Impact: $5,000 Matching Gift Challenge to Support NumFOCUS
12/26/17 Update: Thanks to your generosity and Andy’s matching gift, we’ve raised $10k for sustainable science! With such a great response and still a week to go, we’ve decided to set a stretch goal of $15,000. Thanks so much for your support! — We’re...
Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox now supports Intel MKL
Cross-posted with permission from the blog of Shogun‘s Heiko Strathmann, who recently defended his Ph.D. — congrats, Heiko! — Shogun now supports Intel MKL Over the last few weeks and months, a few things came together that make Shogun both a lot easier to install,...
Starting D&I Conversations at Work — Notes from the DISC Unconference
his blog series summarizes the projects developed and executed by participants in the inaugural Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Unconference, held November 29-30, 2017 in conjunction with PyData NYC. The DISC Unconference mission is to equip...
Getting Started With Open Source — Notes from the NumFOCUS DISC Unconference
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...
My Favourite Tool: IPython
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,...
My Favourite Tool: Jupyter Notebook
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...
Hackseq17: Canada’s Genomics Hackathon for Open Science
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 hackathon...
Quantopian commits to fund pandas as a new NumFOCUS Corporate Partner
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 of...
With a little help from our friends — Join the NumFOCUS Friendraiser!
NumFOCUS Accomplishments in 2017 2017 has been an incredible year for NumFOCUS! Here's a quick list of highlights to date: NumFOCUS Projects Power the Nobel Prize-Winning LIGO Discovery NumPy Receives Their First Ever Grant Funding Four new sponsored...