Hi Offray, On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote:
> Hi Phil, > > On 27/04/18 03:02, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < > offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I will be showcasing Pharo, Roassal and Grafoscopio at re:publica 2018, >> next week. As you may know, re:publica[2] is one of the most important >> and visible media & digital culture conventions in Europe and is a good >> scenario for the Pharo community. You can find details about my >> participation at [1] >> > > The "on how to use the Grafoscopio *pocket infrastructure* for data > activism and digital citizenship " soundbite just blew my mind. > > "Pocket Infrastructure" hits the nail on the head for sure. > I positively love that angle. > Compared to python, node, etc, there is much less fuss to get started and > it allows to focus on the data narrative right away. > > I regularly make folders in my Dropbox where I throw a pharo vm and a > pharo image I work on, saved using https://github.com/ > Pharophile/HOImageSaver so that I can always go back in time easily > (saved me more than once!). This very handy for working on machine A, and > resuming work on machine B, or C etc. > And is indeed "Pocket Infrastructure". > > > I think that pocket infrastructures are a powerful concept for inclusion > and participation, specially in the times of fancy exclusionary "Big Data" > and "Artificial Intelligence" buzzwords and discourses that don't take into > account who becomes data of who, who will have the access, storage and > processing capability in those forecast futures. In contrast Pocket > Infrastructures are inclusive by default, being self-contained, simple and > working well in on/off line contexts. > As I am busy in that space with Hadoop / TensorFlow / ..., yes there is a tendency to have kind of "high priests of data" showing up. This is isolating the common folk instead of empowering them. I am fighting that tendency in the projects because the technology can be approachable. > Pharo, in the live coding environment front and Fossil, in the DVCS front, > work pretty well for that working definition of Pocket Infrastructures. Is > impressive that just under 50 Mb anyone can have a Jupyter+GitHub alike > environment for data storytelling, visualization and reproducible research > that just run in their pockets and low end machines (and of course, big > server and anything in between). We tried before with IPython notebook and > other more complex stuff and we were dealing with external complexities > instead of going right into story telling + coding + data viz. Of course, > Jupyter and GitHub are a lot more popular that Grafoscopio + Fossil, but > they're also traveling the most traverse path, while I think that a lot of > valuable innovation comes, by definition, from the margins and that can > give Pharo ecosystem an advantage point over other more popular approaches, > as practice have demonstrated time and again. > > > As a Jupyter user, yes, I can relate. Jupyter is easy once you have it installed (like installing Anaconda distribution and typing "jupyter notebook" on the command line. But that is already a high bar for non technical people. I am very interested in Grafoscopio to work out proof of concepts in Pharo, so that I can have a nice narrative structure. Coupled with gtExample and specific inspector presentations, this is a terrific thing. My current project involved a Glorp component and I'd like to showcase transactions within a Grafoscopio notebook. I'll tell you how it goes :-) Fossil is indeed a great vehicle for code and assets. Fossil and SQLite, great stuff. Phil > > >> [1] >> https://18.re-publica.com/en/session/data-clinic-twitter-dat >> a-selfies-data-portraits >> [2] https://18.re-publica.com/en >> >> I will be making intensive refactoring on the Dataviz package to create >> some usual and unusual data visualizations from data exported from >> Twitter, so I may be more active those days in the Discord and mailing >> list channels, is some questions arise. >> > > Do you already use DiscordSt? > > > > No. I'm kind of bad at chat real-time messaging communication (It occupies > mostly of my attention and I'm less focused on other stuff). I found myself > being more focused while muting the real-time communication channels and > going to them for specific times/activities and for short periods. What is > DiscordSt? > > >> Thanks in advance for the Pharo communities support. I wouldn't be able >> to be there without it. >> > > What you achieve with Pharo makes me proud of supporting Pharo. > Kudos Offray, we need more people like you in the world. > > _/\_ > > Phil > > > > Thanks for such kind words. I not only wouldn't be able to do it without > the community support, but particularly without the interest that people > like you, Phil, show on these themes and approaches. So is really worthy to > be in a community where different people can share interests, care about > each other and start small by just helping each other with proofreading, > encouraging words, scholarships, coffee and beers, and even some times, > code reviews and software improvements. Thanks a lot for (m)any of those. > > Cheers, > > Offray >
