https://jupyter.org/blog/2016-02-29T22:50:00+00:00The Project Jupyter blog: news, releases, and community stories, archived from blog.jupyter.org.2016-02-29T22:44:00+00:002016-02-29T22:50:00+00:00Andrew Odewahntag:jupyter.org,2016-02-29:/blog/posts/2016/jdboston16-speaker-announcement/

<p>Cambridge, MA. A dynamic group of data scientists, software developers, and educators is converging on March 17 and 18 in Cambridge, MA to present at the third Jupyter Day.</p>

<p><em>Cambridge, MA</em>. A dynamic group of data scientists, software developers, and educators is converging on March 17 and 18 in Cambridge, MA to present at the third <a href="https://jupyter.org/blog/posts/2016/jupyterdays-boston-2016/">Jupyter Day</a>. Sponsored by <a href="http://jupyter.org/">Project Jupyter</a>, the <a href="https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/">Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics</a>, the <a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/library/">Harvard Law School Library</a>, and <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/">O’Reilly Media</a>, the event is the place to learn about state of the art data analysis tools from the people who know them best. Please see the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jupyterdays-boston-2016-tickets-21440120979">conference page</a> for details and registration.</p> <p>The first day explores Jupyter’s many applications, with a particular focus on education, the sciences, and data visualization. Speakers on the first day include:</p> <ul> <li>Matthias Bussonnier, one of the core Jupyter developers, discusses where the project has been and where it’s headed.</li> <li>Chelsea Douglas from <a href="https://plot.ly/">Plotly</a> discusses the many great new features for creating beautiful data visualizations.</li> <li>Jeremy Freeman, a neuroscientist at the <a href="https://www.hhmi.org/">Howard Hughes Medical Center</a>, shows <a href="http://mybinder.org/">binder</a>, his popular service for launching Jupyter notebooks in the cloud.</li> <li>Elaine Angelino from the <a href="http://bids.berkeley.edu/">Berkeley Institute Data Science (BIDS)</a> lays out an ambitious new Jupyter-based data science curriculum being rolled out across UC Berkeley.</li> </ul> <p>The second day is your chance to try it yourself and learn from the experts how to make the most of Jupyter:</p> <ul> <li>Laurent Gautier from <a href="https://www.novartis.com/">Novartis</a> explores how to take advantage of the many, many languages and tools Jupyter supports. It’s not just for Python anymore!</li> <li>Kyle Kelley and Ash Wilson from <a href="https://www.rackspace.com/">Rackspace</a> demonstrate how to set up JupyterHub, the multiuser platform for Jupyter, on <a href="https://getcarina.com/">Carina</a>, Rackspace’s free hosting service for Docker.</li> </ul> <p>The day will also cover many of the technologies you need to make the most of the Jupyter:</p> <ul> <li>Jonas Rosland from <a href="http://emccode.github.io/">EMC {Code}</a> reprises his popular “Introduction to Docker” tutorial. (Why Docker, you ask? It’s the basis for a large and growing infrastructure around scaling the notebook services, so it’s an essential part of the Jupyter ecosystem. Plus, it’s awesome.)</li> <li>Daina Bouquin from the <a href="https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/">Harvard Center for Astrophysics</a> provides an introduction to Git and GitHub. This is <em>the</em> essential tool for collaboration in modern Open Source software projects.</li> </ul> <p>In addition to formal talks, there will be time allotted for audience driven “Birds of a Feather” sessions so that attendees can learn from each other about how Jupyter is being used in their fields.</p> <p><em>CONTACT</em>:</p> <p>For questions about the event, please contact Andrew Odewahn (<a href="mailto:odewahn@oreilly.com">odewahn@oreilly.com</a>)</p>