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Data Science
D4GX 2016 Registration Now Open: Enigma’s Mike Flowers on Why the Conference is So Important
Ahead of the general election, data scientists, public and private sector corporations, non-profits and academic institutions will convene at Bloomberg HQ in New York to discuss how data science can help the new administration. If you are interested in being a part of these important conversations, registration for the Data for Good Exchange is now open.
General
How Bloomberg is Advancing C++ at Scale
John Lakos manages the Bloomberg Development Environment group, which offers a set of C++ software libraries, development tools, and methodology to well over a thousand Bloomberg developers. In this conversation, Lakos discusses the importance of instilling process and discipline in all software development projects.
Data Science
Geolocation for Twitter: Timing Matters
Mark Dredze, Miles Osborne, and Prabhanjan ‘Anju’ Kambadur recently published a paper titled Geolocation for Twitter: Timing Matters at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), one of the premier conferences on natural language processing. Their paper documents the exploration they’ve done into determining how time and place relate to each other in the Twitter stream.
Open Source
Inside the Collaboration That Built the Open Source JupyterLab Project
Today at SciPy 2016, Bloomberg joined Continuum Analytics and Project Jupyter to reveal the new JupyterLab platform so that early adopters can help test the alpha release. JupyterLab creates a more desktop-like experience on the Web, rivaling expensive software suites that allow programmers to use familiar tricks like keyboard shortcuts, tabs and configurable editor layouts.