Hi,
I would say that a way to attract Sci people to Pharo using playgrounds
would be with a outliner like interface for organizing them as a way to
make exploratory reproducible computing (which is what most people on
Science is trying to do. I have argued about it for the IPython case
here. The main argument is this:
"""
I think that complex (scientific) interactive documents which "emerge"
from exploration need a tree interface for progressive structuration
"""
the full argument can be read here:
http://mutabit.com/mutabit/default/wiki/ipython-deepnessI'm trying to argue this also by writing code, using the Moose browsers
for mockups, but being a newbie I'm stock pretty quickly with stuff I
don't understand properly.
Any way I plan to help with this and prototype some ideas about how to
empower visual data narratives (open/citizen/garage science and
journalism) by using Pharo and playgrounds.
Cheers,
Offray
On 07/26/2014 07:24 AM, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Alexandre Bergel
> <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> The favorite programming environments of biologists, mathematicians and
>> physicians, are R, matlab, maple, Octave. All of them allow for saving and
>> loading the content of a workspace. Would it be possible to have this in a
>> playground? As you can imagine, I am not encouraging this practice at all.
>> But it may help attracting them to Pharo.
>
> Yes, I agree this is a first step to attract these guys to Pharo :-)
> They are used to write script in R or matlab.
>
> One biologist from IRD told me recently that is why scripting
> languages are better than GUI tools in their context, because
> this allows more reproducible research.
>
> Some ideas to attract more attention to Pharo for Science:
> - contribute to SciSmalltalk:
https://github.com/SergeStinckwich/SciSmalltalk> We are looking for statistical functions.
>
> - adapt some R or Python open books to Pharo :
>
http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/>
http://www.medepi.net/docs/EpidemiologyUsingR.pdf>
> - having notebooks for Pharo like the one of iPython:
>
http://ipython.org/notebook.html> You can reuse the iPython infrastructure.
> Some people already have done that for Ruby:
>
https://github.com/SciRuby/sciruby/wiki/GSOC-2014:-Ruby-Notebook> You have to implement in 0MQ message protocol:
>
http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/development/messaging.html> Maybe a future gsoc for Pharo ?
>
> Regards,
>
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