Episode 14: Of Wolfram|Alpha, Sages and Statistics

Episode 14 was quite a blast.  We talk about the popularity of R, and new, ambitious and heavily hyped projects by Stephen Wolfram and Stephen Friend

Show notes

How Google and Facebook use R

Stephen Wolfram’s Wolfram|Alpha promises to impact the way we query data and look for information.

“Sage” is a $5 mil funded organization founded by (former) Merck’s Stephen Friend and Eric Schadt to create a scientific commons platform to do better genomics inspired drug discovery research

We talk about the great success of Galaxy Zoo and how the next phase of the project is using Amazon Web Services to scale better

Mendeley aims to be the “Last.fm of Research papers” according to Ricardo Vidal, who recently signed on as community Liaison

Links of the week

Hari continues with his python kick with Scipy.org

Deepak was checking out freemat.org an open source matlab clone that packs quite a punch

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One Response to “Episode 14: Of Wolfram|Alpha, Sages and Statistics”

  1. Chris Lasher says:

    Hey, it was awesome to hear mention of Enthought! I met a couple of the members of Enthought at the SciPy 2007 Conference–very smart, great guys.

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