We recently conducted a poll on Doodle, soliciting feedback on the preferred topics for the advanced track, which is meant to contain 2 days with 8 2-hour sessions focusing on one specific topic at a time. The table below shows the complete results, which I've only sorted for convenient viewing and anonymized (the raw Doodle output contains the names given by each person voting). If anyone would like the raw spreadsheet, just drop me a line. The score was computed as #yes-#no (i.e., yes=+1, neutral=0, no=-1), from a total of 30 responses, and the results are in the table below, ranked from highest to lowest score. In my personal opinion, all the topics offered would have made for very good and interesting tutorials, but the point of asking for feedback is obviously to follow it to some degree, which we will now do. I think it's worth noting --though not particularly surprising-- that the ranking roughly follows the generality of the tools: matplotlib and numpy are at th...
Thoughts and notes on open scientific computing, with a focus on Python-based tools (IPython, numpy, scipy, matplotlib and friends). By Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley Statistics and Data Science Professor. Website at fernandoperez.org.