Meet Julia, a new programming language for data science

Time/place

• Date: 2019-10-25, 3pm-5pm
• Location: CHIPS Room 208
  Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation Building
  University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  26 S Dunlap St, Memphis, TN 38163
  Directions

Organizing team

Gregory Farage ~ Chelsea Trotter ~ Hyeonju Kim ~ Tristan Hayes ~ Saunak Sen

WiFi

Network is: CHIPS GUEST
Password is: chipsuthsc2017

Installation instructions

We will use the Jupyter IDE with Julia for the seminar. If possible, we suggest that you install Julia and Jupyter in advance following the instructions below. If you encounter any problems during installation, please post an issue and we will do our best to respond.

Julia and Jupyter lab installation instructions

Schedule

• 3:00pm Room opens, setup, social
  Sign attendance, introduce yourself, connect to WiFi
• 3:05pm Introductory remarks (Sen)
  Why we are interested, what's in it for you, overview
• 3:10pm Key features (Farage)
  Slides
• 3:30pm Why is Julia fast and flexible? (Trotter)
  Notebook
• 3:45pm Installation, break, and pizza (Farage)
  Notebook
• 4:00pm Mundane data analysis tasks (Sen)
  Notebook
• 4:15pm Scientific computing (Sen)
  Notebook
• 4:30pm Parallel, distributed, and GPU computing (Trotter)
  Notebook
• 4:40pm Calling other languages (Farage)
  Notebook
• 4:55pm Closing remarks, thanks, survey (Sen)
• 5:00pm Workshop end

Post-meeting social

At High Cotton Brewery | Directions

Feedback survey

Please fill out our feedback survey after the seminar.

https://julia-tutorial-2019-feedback.questionpro.com

Julia set