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NumFOCUS Announces New Fiscally Sponsored Project: QuantEcon
QuantEcon is an organization dedicated to improving economic modeling by enhancing the coding skills and computational tool set of economists through development of and exposure to modern open source computational methods for research, econometrics, and decision...
Applications are Open for Google Summer of Code 2016 at NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is excited to once again participate as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2016 — our second time participating in the program! Google Summer of Code sponsors students to work full-time on open source projects during summer vacation (in the...
NumFOCUS Announces New Fiscally Sponsored Project: Stan
NumFOCUS is pleased to announceStan as our newest fiscally sponsored project. Stan pairs a user-focused probabilistic programming language with a state-of-the-art computational library, enabling automatic inference for a large class of statistical models. Stan is used...
NumFOCUS Projects Featured in LIGO Gravitational Waves Discovery (2017 Nobel Prize)
UPDATED 10.03.17 - Three scientists who were architects and leaders of the LIGO discovery have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. UPDATED 3.14.17 to reflect inclusion of Stan as part of the LIGO discovery. (Stan was added as a NumFOCUS project after the...
NumFOCUS raises $17.6K, beats 2015 fundraising goal
The team at NumFOCUS extends a hearty THANK YOU to all of our supporters! Thanks to your generosity, we were able to shatter our end-of-year fundraising goal and raise a total of $17,600 for open source data science! These funds will be used to support development on...
NumFOCUS End-of-Year Fundraising Drive: Final Hours!
by Lorena Barba, NumFOCUS Board Member NumFOCUS reaches $5,000 target, issues new appeal Just over two weeks ago, I cheerfully wrote a blog post calling for donations to the NumFOCUS end-of-year campaign. We had an anonymous donor offer to match any gifts up to...
NumFOCUS End-of-Year Fundraising Drive: $5,000 Matching Gift Challenge!
12.16.31 - UPDATE: A second anonymous donor has stepped up and offered to match all donations up to our $5,000 goal between now and Dec. 31st!Make your gift now and TRIPLE your impact! by Lorena Barba, NumFOCUS Board MemberWho wrote that open-source software you’re...
NumFOCUS Sponsored Project Julia receives $600K Grant
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that sponsored project Julia has received a grant of $600,000 from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Data-Driven Discovery Initiative. The grant will enable the Julia Language team to move their core open-source computing...
PyData 2016 Sponsorships: Limited-Time Discount on Multi-Conference Bundles
Give your company the gift of a limited-time discount on sponsorship bundles for the PyData 2016 conference series! The 2015 PyData conference series just concluded with a completely sold-out New York City event, and we anticipate even more growth of our community in...
Slides from the PyData NYC 2015 Discussion Track
Thank you to all our discussion track speakers who provided links to their slides and repos!TUESDAYRyan O'Neil Optimize your Docker Infrastructure with PythonBob McNaughton Python with a SWIG of C++Sanghamitra Deb Understanding Product Attributes from...
ODSC donates $5K to support NumPy, women in tech
by Gina Helfrich NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that the Open Data Science Conference has made a generous donation in the amount of $5,000. OSDC's generous gift will go to support a NumFOCUS women in technology workshop for high school girls in San Francisco in 2016....
NumFOCUS Sponsored Project rOpenSci receives $2.9M Award
by Gina Helfrich NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that sponsored project rOpenSci has received a grant of nearly $2.9 million over three years from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. The grant, which was awarded through the Trust’s Biomedical...