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Moore Foundation gives grant to support NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing initiatives
As part of our mission to support and promote better science through support of the open source scientific software community, NumFOCUS champions technical progress through diversity. NumFOCUS recognizes that the open source data science community is currently highly...
Anyone Can Do Astronomy with Python and Open Data
Ole Moeller-Nilsson, CTO at Pivigo, was kind enough to share his insights on how a beginner can easily get started exploring astronomy using Python. This blog post grew out of a presentation he gave at PyData London meetup on March 7th. Python is a great language for...
NumFOCUS Welcomes SunPy, Our Newest Fiscally Sponsored Project
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the addition of SunPy to our fiscally sponsored projects. SunPy is a community-developed, free and open-source software library for solar physics based on Python. The aim of the SunPy project is to provide the software tools necessary...
IBM Brings Jupyter and Spark to the Mainframe
NumFOCUS Platinum Sponsor IBM has been doing wonderful work to support one of our fiscally sponsored projects, Project Jupyter. Brian Granger over at the Jupyter Blog has the details... "For the past few years, Project Jupyter has been collaborating with IBM on a...
PyData Atlanta Meetup Celebrates 1 Year and over 1,000 members
PyData Atlanta holds a meetup at MailChimp, where Jim Crozier spoke about analyzing NFL data with PySpark. Atlanta tells a new story about data by Rob Clewley In late 2015, the three of us (Tony Fast, Neel Shivdasani, and myself) had been regularly nerding out about...
nteract: Building on top of Jupyter (from a rich REPL toolkit to interactive notebooks)
This post originally appeared on the nteract blog. nteract builds upon the very successful foundations of Jupyter. I think of Jupyter as a brilliantly rich REPL toolkit. A typical REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) is an interpreter that takes input from the user and...
Facebook Makes Sophisticated Forecasting Techniques Available to Non-Experts Thanks to Stan, a NumFOCUS Sponsored Project
Facebook Prophet Stan Facebook Forecasting Tool Prophet is built on Stan Facebook recently announced that they have made their forecasting tool, Prophet, open source. This is great news for data scientists and business analysts alike—forecasting is an important but...
Some fun with π in Julia
This post originally appeared on the Julialang.org blog. Some fun with π in Julia 14 Mar 2017 | Simon Byrne, Luis Benet and David Sanders This post is available as a Jupyter notebook here π in Julia (Simon Byrne) Like most technical languages, Julia provides a...
Technical preview: Native GPU programming with CUDAnative.jl (Julia)
This post originally appeared on Julialang.org blog. 14 Mar 2017 | Tim Besard After 2 years of slow but steady development, we would like to announce the first preview release of native GPU programming capabilities for Julia. You can now write your CUDA...
Applications are Open for Google Summer of Code 2017
NumFOCUS is excited to once again participate as an umbrella organization for Google Summer of Code 2017 — our third time participating in the program! Google Summer of Code sponsors students to work full-time for 3 months on open source projects during the summer (in...
Welcome Back, Gina – Communications Director
NumFOCUS is very excited to welcome Gina Helfrich back to our team! Gina Helfrich first joined NumFOCUS in 2015 as Communications Director; she was the second full-time staff member at NumFOCUS. Gina is a highly skilled communications professional with experience in a...
NumFOCUS End-of-Year Drive- we reached our goal!
The numbers are in and we are happy to announce that the NumFOCUS End-of-Year Fundraising Drive has raised $9,278.50, exceeding our original goal of $5,000! On behalf of NumFOCUS and all of the projects, we would like to extend our sincerest THANK YOU to everyone who...