On Monday, 14 April 2014 05:15:31 UTC+8, utel wrote: > > A handful of developers at the organisation I work at, want to encourage > interest in Clojure with the aim of using it in production amongst the > organisation's wider developer community (hundreds of developers). We > ourselves are Clojure hobbyists. > > We wanted to do this through a basic project (with few moving parts), so I > wanted to get feedback on a couple of aspects: > 1. Examples of basic project ideas that would be compelling to fellow > developers not familiar with Clojure (e.g. something useful that you can do > easily with Clojure that's harder to do in more established languages such > as Java) > 2. Particular libraries that again had a wow factor towards an objective > not easily achievable in more established languages (perhaps related to > data analysis, visualisation, or taking advantage of the benefit of lazy > evaluation in a novel way as examples). >
Disclaimer: Slightly a plug for my own personal projects and interests :-) There are a lot of great opportunities to get involved around the numerical computing space in Clojure, especially if you think that data analysis and visualisation counts as a "wow" factor. We welcome open source contributions from all perspectives. In particular: 1. The core.matrix librray / API for array programming (see: https://github.com/mikera/core.matrix) 2. The Incanter environment for data science / statistical computing (see: http://incanter.org/) If you are interested in exploring this area further, here are some useful links: - The "Numerical Clojure" google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/numerical-clojure - My "Enter The Matrix" talk at the Clojure Conj: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h9TLJtjSJo - "Enter The Matrix" slides: http://www.slideshare.net/mikeranderson/2013-1114-enter-thematrix - Clojure Dojo core.matrix repository: https://github.com/clojure-numerics/core.matrix.dojo The last link includes some fun data analysis examples, using match results from the English Premier League.... hopefully some of these give you a taste of the "wow" factor in terms of rapid data processing and very efficient coding in an array-programming style. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
