Posted by Tom Moertel
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:38:00 GMT
Last week I gave a talk on the R statistics
system and Perl for the Pittsburgh Perl
Mongers. The example that threaded through the
talk was something I have written about here before, extracting
useful information from the Internet Movie
Database.
If you’ve read my earlier blog
post
or have used the Grand Unified IMDB Movie Rating Decoder
Ring,
you might find the slides from the talk interesting. They provide
some more details about the R and Perl code used to analyze the IMDB data
and create the decoder ring.
You can get the slides here:
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Tags imdb, perl, R, statistics, talks
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Posted by Tom Moertel
Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:30:00 GMT
I am on the planning committee for the 2006 Pittsburgh Perl
Workshop and serve as the primary point of contact for
speakers. That means I get the inside scoop on the talks.
And from what I have seen, all I can say is, These
talks kick ass. Well, actually I can say one more thing:
If there is any possible way you can manage to get yourself to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
on Saturday, 23 September 2006, do not wait, do not mull
it over, register now for the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop.
If you miss this one, you’ll probably end up weeping in front of your keyboard for a long, long time.
PPW ’06 has speakers from the worlds of finance,
bioinformatics, engineering, politics, health care, insurance, Web-2.0
start-ups, environmental monitoring, and mathematics. And they all
have fascinating things to share with you about how they make Perl
work for them and about how you can make Perl work for you.
Registration is only $20 – can you imagine that, in an age when
programming conferences routinely cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars? – and all of the talks show you how to use
Perl to do real work, solve real problems, and make your real life as a
programming professional a whole lot saner. Even if you think
you don’t care about Perl, you ought to be a part of
PPW ’06 just for the rare opportunity to discover something
you may have overlooked. (At $20, when are you ever going to get
a chance like this again?)
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Tags cool, perl, pittsburgh, ppw, ppw06, stuff, talks
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Posted by Tom Moertel
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:39:00 GMT
Last week I gave a brief talk for the Pittsburgh Perl
Mongers about embedding domain-specific languages
into Perl. The slides from the talk are now available:
Embedding an XHTML template language into Perl.
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Tags dsls, perl, pghpm, talks
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Posted by Tom Moertel
Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:41:00 GMT
Over the weekend I attended Damian
Conway’s talk on Sufficiently Advanced
Technologies,
hosted by the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers and
presented at CMU.
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Tags conway, damian, perl, talks
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