Clojure Lightning Talks
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Note the location! 90 Broadway is next to Mead Hall. It is not the usual location at 150 Broadway (headquarters)
Please join us for a night of Clojure related discussion and group activities. Pizza and drinks provided by Akamai. Meet & Greet w/ Pizza starts at 6:30, agenda to start no later than 7:00.
Agenda (so far):
Ed Sumitra: Simple UI Components and data flows with Reagent
Reagent lets developers easily build web apps by composing pages and complex components from simpler components. The talk illustrates building a UI component composed of simpler components and shows simple approaches to sharing data between the components. This 20 minute talk is for beginners to clojurescript and assumes some familiarity with React.
Tom Lyons: Clojure Debugging Hacks
Husain Al-Mohssen: Using Clojure in Data Science -- What is a person to do?
This short talk will share the trials and tribulations of a beginner Clojureist while he tries to navigate the complexities of learning Clojure, ClojureScript, Reagent and a couple of javascript libraries while trying to ship in a freshly-minted data-science team. It's kind of like Grace Under Fire starring Scala as the role of the abusive ex-husband. I will share some of the patterns that worked for my team, including on-boarding, exploratory data analysis and building data-processing pipe-lines to build dashboards as well as MVPs.
Jon Anthony, Michael Bukatin: Dataflow matrix machines in Clojure
Dataflow matrix machines are 'neural networks on steroids'. The key idea is to build a model of computation around streams of vectors instead of the usual streams of numbers, resulting in a much more powerful architecture. Clojure inspired us to produce a particularly elegant way to represent vectors for dataflow matrix machines.
We may have time for one more.. Please let us know if you'd be interested in giving a short presentation. Talks will generally be between 5 and 20 minutes in length. You can present with or without visuals. It's a friendly crowd so this is a good low risk opportunity to get yourself in front of an audience and work on your public speaking skills.
We hope you can join us!
Find us on the web:
twitter: #bosclj github: https://github.com/boston-clojure Discussion forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/boston-clojure meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Clojure-Group