R is a widely used language for data science, but due to performance most of its underlying library are written in C, C++, or Fortran. Julia is a relative newcomer to the field which has busted out since its 1.0 to become one of the top 20 most used langu... (more…)

This workshop will have three phases: * General overview of microservices and their architecture; what are the purposes and goals of a microservice; need for web, service, and persistence layers; which layer takes care of which pieces of functionality;... (more…)

Forecasting the Democratic primary This post is inspired by the new FiveThirtyEight primary forecast. It might be tempting to forecast the likely outcome of the primary by looking at the current polls, where they ask people who they would vote for today. ... (more…)

Web apps are all the rage because of accessibility. However, there are usually problems with trying to modify some existing software to be a web app: specifically user interface and performance. In order for a web application to perform well, it must be a...

Multiple dispatch used by Julia gives a novel solution to the expression problem, while the so-called object-oriented programming has a different answer that is much more popular. (more…)