SciPy 2010 ReviewEric Jones • July 16, 2010

187 attendees.

187 attendees

120 Tutorials50 Sprints

187 attendees

120 Tutorials50 Sprints

•96 Industry/Government

57 Academics36 Students

187 attendees

>50% growth rate from 2009

•EuroSciPy 2010 had

140 attendees...>100-200% growth!

Major Theme: Parallel Computing and GPUs

Parallel Computing and GPUsTUTORIAL: High Performance & Parallel Computing

Brian Granger

Multiple libraries for a similar task: • Multiprocessing • MPI4Py • PyZMQ • IPython • PiCloud

Parallel Computing and GPUsTUTORIAL: GPUs and Python

Andreas Klockner

Parallel Computing and GPUsKEYNOTE: Python Concurrency

David Beazley

Parallel Computing and GPUsGENERAL SESSION: Theano: Transparent GPU computingJames Bergstra, Olivier Breuleux, Frederic Bastien, Pascal Lamblin, Razvan Pascanu, Guillaume Desjardins, Joseph Turian, Yoshua Bengio

Parallel Computing and GPUs

GENERAL SESSION: Simple, Fast Messaging in Python with 0MQ and PyZMQ Brian Granger

Parallel Computing and GPUs

SPECIALIZED TRACK....

Dan Yamins, StarFlow ➞

Minor Theme: Stats (and the data structures for them)

Stats (and the data structures for them)GENERAL SESSION:

Statsmodels Skipper Seabold

PandasWes McKinney

Stats (and the data structures for them)BOFs

http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/NdarrayWithNamedAxes

Wiki

http://fperez.org/py4science/datarray/

Docs

Stats (and the data structures for them)Sprints Warren Weckesser, Anthony Scopatz

• Added tests to scipy.stats to bring it more in line with testing in other SciPy packages.

• Added a preliminary N-dimensional contingency table model with tests.

• Skipper Seabold worked on a refactor of scipy.stats distributions. 

Minor Theme: BioInformatics

Bioinformatics

Other Interesting Talks...

KEYNOTE: Moving Forward from the Last Decade of SciPyTravis Oliphant

Divisi: Learning from Semantic Networks and Sparse SVD Rob Speer

Do Google, Bing, & Yahoo Differ? Contingency Table Analysis on Search EnginesAnthony Scopatz

Python Evangelism 101 (Lightning talk)Peter Wang

Various Astronomy talks...Rebuilding the Hubble Exposure Time Calculator Perry Greenfield

Keeping the Chandra Satellite Cool with PythonTom Aldcroft

SpacePy: A Python-based library of tools for the space sciences Steven K. Morley, Josef Koller, Daniel T. Welling, Michael G. Henderson

Astrodata Craig Allen

Sprints

PyZMQ

NumPydatetime

Thank you.