real-world-data: a space to discuss your data and science projects in Clojure

The real-world-data group is about the use of Clojure for data and science problems.

Schedule

The group usually meets every second Friday, 17:00 UTC time zone, except for some special meetings.

  • May 3nd, 2025 - meeting 30 - special conference prep meeting - 📆 event
  • April 18th, 2025- meeting 29 - agenda: a browser UI for Clay; community updates
  • (skipped April 4th)
  • Mar 21st, 2025 - meeting 28 - agenda: Clay overview
  • Mar 10th, 2025 (unusual day and hour) - meeting 27 - conference prep meeting
  • Mar 9th, 2025 (unusual day and hour) - meeting 26 - conference prep meeting
  • Feb 21th, 2025 - meeting 25 - agenda: Preparation for SciNoj Light
  • Feb 7th, 2025 - meeting 24 - agenda: A full-stack project in Phel Lang, the Tableplot transpile API, and the Std.lang universile transpiler
  • Jan 24th, 2025 - meeting 23 - agenda: learning R and the tidyverse
  • Jan 10th, 2025 - meeting 22 - agenda: community building, exploring the datatypes of array-programming libraries
  • Dec 21th, 2024 - meeting 21 - agenda: numerical linear algebra - 📖worked on this draft
  • Dec 13th, 2024 - meeting 20 - (details in Zulip chat)
  • Nov 29th, 2024 - meeting 19 - agenda: updates and discussion (details in Zulip chat)
  • Nov 15th, 2024 - meeting 18 - agenda: Library plans - composing Fastmath with Tablecloth
  • Nov 1st, 2024 - meeting 17 - agenda: Noj tutorials (details in Zulip chat)
  • Oct 18th, 2024 - meeting 16 - agenda: diverse updates (details in Zulip chat) - publicly shared recording:
  • Oct 4th, 2024 - meeting 15 - agenda: diverse updates (details in Zulip chat) - publicly shared redordings:
  • Sep 20th, 2024 - meeting 14 - agenda: diving into libraries (details in Zulip chat)
  • Sep 6th, 2024 - meeting 13 - agenda: Heart-of-Clojure pre-discussions, clojure-data-tutorials, library updates
  • Aug 23th, 2024 - meeting 12 - agenda: diverse updates (details in Zulip chat) - publicly shared recordings:
  • Aug 9th, 2024 - meeting 11 - agenda: diverse updates (details in Zulip chat)
  • July 26th, 2024 - meeting 10 - agenda: diverse updates (details in Zulip chat)
  • July 12th, 2024 - meeting 9 - agenda: diverse updates (details in Zulip chat)
  • June 28th, 2024 - meeting 8 - topic: high-performance numerics (cont.)
  • June 14th, 2024 - meeting 7 - topic: high-performance numerics using Neanderthal
  • May 31th, 2024 - meeting 6 - focus topic: Intro to linear algebra with applications using Neanderthal - a revised walkthrough will be shared publicly
    • If you wish to present or discuss anything, please let us know. The agenda is updating gradually in the group’s Zulip chat.
  • May 17th, 2024 - meeting 5
  • May 3rd, 2024 - meeting 4
  • April 19th, 2024 - meeting 3
  • April 5th, 2024 - meeting 2
  • March 22th, 2024 - meeting 1

Goal

This group is a space for individuals, companies, academic groups, and organizations to share their experiences and support each other in using Clojure for data & science projects.

Data analytics, machine learning, AI, data engineering, scientific computing, and data visualization are all welcome.

It is a safe space for sharing successes, troubles, problems, hopes, and doubts.

Participating

⭐ It is never too late to join this group. ⭐

If you wish to use Clojure for a data or science project and prefer not to be alone in that journey, this group is for you.

We will also assume that you either know some Clojure or have a serious intention to learn it.

To join, please reach out to us by contacting Daniel Slutsky at the Clojurians Zulip chat, or ar the various Scicloj ways of contact. We will think together about whether this group fits your path.

Sessions

As a group, we will have biweekly sessions to discuss our ongoing projects. Participants will bring their own data & science problems to the sessions and actively work on them between sessions.

Some of the time will be dedicated to learning relevant practices, ideas, and technical topics.

We will also have one-on-one or small-group sessions to support individual journeys.

Recordings

The sessions will be partially recorded.

Most of the recordings will not be shared publicly but rather internally as a tool for us to catch up and recall our past discussions. When recordings are planned to be made public, we will first check with all participants.

Pairing

In the group, we will seek opportunities of collaborations.

A scientist may wish to pair with a Clojure engineer and explore something together, a Clojurian person may be curious about joining a scientific project, etc. We will be looking for such cases and try to help in matching them.

Contributing

In your projects using the emerging Clojure stack, there will often be opportunities to contribute back to the libraries you use. We will encourage that and help you in considering about fruitful directions and connecting with the relevant library authors.

We will highly encourage contributing documentation and tutorials and will use the Clojure Data Scrapbook as a central space for such content.

Chat

The group will use the Clojurians Zulip chat. Specifically, the #real-world-data stream.

Old timeline (archive)

  • Feb. 25th 2022 - two special sessions we had a while back - announcement (recorded but never published)
  • late June 2023 - initial survey (then the project went on hold)
  • March 2024 - starting the group’s regular path
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