We hope you have a wonderful holiday season and are able to join People Network calls in January! (For handy calendar entries, see the CaRCC Events Calendar.)
Data-Facing Track (first Tuesdays)
Tuesday, January 5, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Python for Big Data
Presenter: Bala Desinghu, Rutgers University
Python is a popular programming language for developing software and data science applications. Its popularity stems from many factors such as simplicity, readability, portability, etc. As such, Python is slow compared to C or Fortran and it does not manage memory well. These limitations in speed and memory management may not be significant when analyzing small data sets, but it becomes a bottleneck when analyzing big data sets. Techniques based on vectorization, parallelization, just in time compilation, and distributed task executions have been widely adopted by the Python community to address these challenges associated with big data. This presentation will address a few techniques suitable for large scale data analysis and answer the following questions: What to do when the data set size exceeds the available physical memory? How to speed up the data analysis? How to distribute the workloads when doing machine learning for big data sets?
Researcher-Facing Track (second Thursdays)
Thursday, January 14, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
All about CaRCC (… beyond the R-F Track)
Presenters:
Tom Cheatham, University of Utah
Lauren Michael, University of Wisconsin
Dana Brunson, Internet2
Patrick Schmitz, Semper Cogito Consulting
The Researcher-Facing Track would like to take the opportunity to start 2021 by pausing, reflecting, and asking “Who are we?” CaRCC has grown and evolved over the past two to three years — the People Network alone currently has over 900 persons on its mailing list; and the number of working groups has approximately doubled. Many persons within CaRCC and part of the Ecosystem are hard at work “boundary spanning” — bringing groups together, sharing ideas, and helping both the RCD profession and the research & researchers we support. We will give attendees an overview & update on the organization; highlight some key, example activities and outputs of a couple Working Groups, and conclude with Engagement. This is a great time to invite new colleagues to come and learn about CaRCC, its activities, and how to Get Started or Get Involved!
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