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REPL Workflow notes

Pimp My REPL

Ian Truslove told me about a blog post, Pimp My REPL, and it offers a good starting point. Since it’s a little over a year old, we should check and see if the advice is still accurate, or if some of the tools have changed.

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This might have come from Clojure Applied

Thinking in Processes

The use of threads, data parallelism with reducers, and task parallelism is for parallelism (of a few tasks), not concurrent threads of execution.

Channels

• like queues

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What Do Data Scientists Do?

• Define the question
• Define the ideal data set
• What data can you access?
• Obtain the data
• Clean the data
• Exploratory data analysis
• Statistical Prediction / modeling
• Interpret results

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Make Your Own Banner

The Problem

A friend is having a baby shower, and you’re helping with organizing the event. You’d like to make a banner, but nothing says it quite right, but you find a Make Your Own Banner kit at the store! This kit contains the alphabet, with each letter occuring n-times, based on the frequency of that letter in English text. Will this kit, what phrases can you create? Will it work for the party?

Data

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Interesting Points

Vance’s Cabin

• UTM: 13S388056E4360100N
• Decimal Degrees: 39.383129N, -106.299797W
• Degrees, Minutes, Seconds: 39°22′59.265″N, -106°17′59.265″W

Guanella Pass

• UTM: 13S438942.4E4383049.3N
• Decimal Degrees: 39.595E, -105.711112W
• Degrees Minutes Seconds: 39°35′42″N 105°42′40″W

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