If you want to use it, the julia-jobs forum <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-jobs> exists to let people know of opportunities that are posted there.
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 5:47:46 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: > > 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]) >> 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]> 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 >>>> >>>> >>
