That is a reasonable want; it may take Anderson some time to institute scholarships for expertise in Julia If you were already expert with Julia, what would you have your students doing?
for expertThat is a reasonable want. As an alternative, Anderson is not offering scholarships earmarked for Julia experts. On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 3:49:47 PM UTC-5, ivo welch wrote: > > > indeed. thank you, josh. I would add a final chapter at > > http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/ > > with a set of links to various further resources, examples, full > stand-alone programs, etc. for me, at least, the perl cookbook and sets of > self-contained snippet programs to start with, were the main reason why I > learned perl many years ago. > > the key problem to my use of julia over R for my students is that I do not > have a resident julia expert at UCLA. this won't change anytime soon, > because they are hard to find (hire) :-(. this google forum is great, but > it's scary to switch without a double hull. many, many full *working* > standalone examples are the next best thing for me. > > regards, > > /iaw > > > ---- > Ivo Welch ([email protected] <javascript:>) > http://www.ivo-welch.info/ > J. Fred Weston Distinguished Professor of Finance > Anderson School at UCLA, C519 > Free Finance Textbook, http://book.ivo-welch.info/ > Exec Editor, Critical Finance Review, > http://www.critical-finance-review.org/ > Editor and Publisher, FAMe, http://www.fame-jagazine.com/ > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Josh Day <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I think a lot of what you're looking for already exists. It's just that >> things like "run a regression according to variable names" wouldn't belong >> in base Julia. If you haven't already, I'd take a look at StatsBase.jl, >> DataFrames.jl, and GLM.jl. >> >> >> http://dataframesjl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/io.html#importing-data-from-tabular-data-files >> https://github.com/JuliaStats/GLM.jl >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 10:58:37 AM UTC-5, ivo welch wrote: >>> >>> >>> ladies and gents---I am not (yet) a julia user. >>> >>> may I suggest adding more examples into two places where julia users >>> will face starting hurdles? >>> >>> [1] the I/O docs of julia. like, reading and writing csv files that are >>> compressed and decompressed on-the-fly, even if not in the ultimate >>> efficient manner. a large fraction of the time and frustration of new >>> users is consumed by the task of shoehorning data into and out of new >>> computer languages. with all of R's problem, the ' d <- read.csv("f.csv")' >>> and 'd<-read.csv(pipe(paste("gzcat ", fname)))' reduced this entry >>> frustration greatly. perhaps xml file reading and writing. perhaps... >>> >>> [2] more 'standard task' programs would be great. read a csv file, run >>> a regression according to variable names on the command line, print output, >>> draw a graph. I know there are fragments throughout the docs, but some >>> section with ready to run complete programs would be good, perhaps at the >>> end of the manual. >>> >>> in a year, I hope to switch my students from R to julia. >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> /iaw >>> >>> >
