We’ve got two exciting Hands on Sessions coming up! Location and time as usual.
Friday Feb 1st, 1 pm: Hands on Session 4: Using Amazon EC2 to set up a Hadoop cluster (with Todd Bodnar)
Location: Millennium Science Complex, room W-203A
Friday Feb 8th, 1 pm: Hands on Session 5: Using R to work with data (with Lindsay Beck-Johnson)
Location: Millennium Science Complex, room W-203A
With less than two weeks to go before Jan 21, we’d like to invite you once again to participate in the Hacking Science Hackathon.
The Hackathon is an opportunity to prototype an app, get your hands dirty with data problems you might be having, or help someone else with their problem. In the beautiful commons room on the 3rd floor of the Millennium Science Complex, we’ll start at 10 am with some coffee, bagels and assemble in groups looking to work on interesting problems. At 11 am, we’ll start the hacking!
Free food will be available throughout the day. After dinner at 7 pm, groups will demo their problem and their progress, after which hacking will commence into the night.
To make matchmaking of interests and skills easier, we are putting up two Google docs – one for ideas, and one for people / skills. Feel free to put up your own info and get in touch with others before the event.
Please register early for the event, it’ll make our lives much easier in organizing the event. Thanks!
PS New here? Don’t forget to get on the email list, follow us on Twitter @hackingscience. We run regular Hands on Sessions on all kinds of topics – for upcoming ones in January, see https://sites.psu.edu/hackingscience/2013/01/01/hands-on-sessions-in-january/
One of the core themes of Hacking Science is that execution is 99% (the other 1% being the idea). In that spirit, we are introducing Hands On Sessions – short overviews on a topic or theme, with lots of examples, and where participants are expected to bring their laptops / tablets.
We have the following Hands On Sessions lined up for the next three weeks:
Friday Jan 4, 1 pm: Hands on Session 1: Client technologies – HTML, Javascript / DOM, CSS, SVG etc. (with Marcel Salathé)
Location: Millennium Science Complex, room W-203A
Friday Jan 11, 2 pm: Hands on Session 2: Mapping Tools – Analysis and Visualization of Spatial Data (with Josh Stevens)
Location: Millennium Science Complex, room W-203A
(Slides & code + data available)
Friday Jan 18, 1 pm: Hands on Session 3: Version control & social coding with git and gitHub (with Alex Shovlin)
Location: Millennium Science Complex, room W-203A
(Slides available)