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Daniel Slutsky08:06:48

In the last few months, we have been running the #visual-tools meetings: https://scicloj.github.io/docs/community/groups/visual-tools/ It has been a space for sharing updates, getting feedback, and collaborating on tools and libraries for data visualization and literate programming. We have had monthly update meetings, as well as some special study sessions in between. I am wondering if a similar model would be helpful for #data-science: A monthly data-science meeting to discuss ongoing projects, ideas, and experiments around the emerging stack for data processing & data analytics. :thinking_face: In those fields, some of the main library maintainers are collaborating anyway and communicating through text chat. But a monthly meeting could be a good platform to support new contributors and connect with library authors who are not yet part of the main discussion. (This could be related to the sci-fu group organized by @ezmiller77, which has been a great space for collaboration and mutual support. Some thought is needed about the relation/overlap here. https://scicloj.github.io/docs/community/groups/sci-fu/) For now, this is mainly a call for feedback: Any thoughts? Would find a data-science monthly meeting useful? Would you maybe join some of those meetings? Would you like to help in organizing?

Lars Kristian Maron Telle09:06:13

1. Not yet. 2. Yes. 3. Yes. 4. Maybe down the line. I've been wanting to get into machine learning for a while now. I have colleagues working in Python, but I would like to do things in Clojure. Having such a meeting would be a nice way for me to gradually enter the field, I'd say. 🙂

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mlierren14:06:06

1. Thank you for your efforts. 2. YES 3. YES 4. I hope one day I can help. But not now. 😅 I’m using the python data science stack, but I’d like to try it with Clojure.

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metasoarous16:06:41

Sounds like a great idea! I agree that there's some thinking to do about how to make this complement sci-fu. Maybe shorter updates and open conversation (as with the #visual-tools sessions), vs deeper dives on particular tools/topics in a more directed way?

metasoarous16:06:42

I would probably join some of these. I don't think I could organize on a regular basis, but I could probably help organize occasionally when it intersects with my wheel-house.

metasoarous16:06:18

I think it's worth thinking about this from the perspective of why someone would want to go to one vs the other (re sci-fu), as thinking broadly about what folks are getting out of it is probably the best way to a) get folks to show up, and b) differentiate the two spaces, so that they're not duplicating efforts, and ultimately covering more ground.

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Daniel Slutsky21:07:41

fFollowing up on this idea of a data-science dev group -- to recap, the idea is to create a space for: - sharing updates and getting feedback - discussing collaborations - brainstorming the needs of the ecosystem - supporting new contributors - having general monthly meetings - as well as other ad-hoc meetings in between ---------------------------------------------- I wish to organize a first monthly session on the last weekend of July (Friday 29-Sunday 31). * Please write to me if you have any day/time preferences for that weekend? 🕐 * Any ideas about how to name this new dev group? :thinking_face: * scicloj sync * scicloj tap> * scicloj update-in * scicloj makerspace * ?

Daniel Slutsky10:07:53

Following up on this thread, here is the first monthly meeting: https://clojureverse.org/t/data-recur-meeting-1-general-monthly/

Daniel Slutsky21:07:41
replied to a thread:In the last few months, we have been running the #visual-tools meetings: https://scicloj.github.io/docs/community/groups/visual-tools/ It has been a space for sharing updates, getting feedback, and collaborating on tools and libraries for data visualization and literate programming. We have had monthly update meetings, as well as some special study sessions in between. I am wondering if a similar model would be helpful for #data-science: A monthly data-science meeting to discuss ongoing projects, ideas, and experiments around the emerging stack for data processing & data analytics. :thinking_face: In those fields, some of the main library maintainers are collaborating anyway and communicating through text chat. But a monthly meeting could be a good platform to support new contributors and connect with library authors who are not yet part of the main discussion. (This could be related to the sci-fu group organized by @ezmiller77, which has been a great space for collaboration and mutual support. Some thought is needed about the relation/overlap here. https://scicloj.github.io/docs/community/groups/sci-fu/) For now, this is mainly a call for feedback: :question: Any thoughts? Would find a data-science monthly meeting useful? Would you maybe join some of those meetings? Would you like to help in organizing? :question:

fFollowing up on this idea of a data-science dev group -- to recap, the idea is to create a space for: - sharing updates and getting feedback - discussing collaborations - brainstorming the needs of the ecosystem - supporting new contributors - having general monthly meetings - as well as other ad-hoc meetings in between ---------------------------------------------- I wish to organize a first monthly session on the last weekend of July (Friday 29-Sunday 31). * Please write to me if you have any day/time preferences for that weekend? 🕐 * Any ideas about how to name this new dev group? :thinking_face: * scicloj sync * scicloj tap> * scicloj update-in * scicloj makerspace * ?