Hi! In July I will be giving a workshop called “Topological Data Analysis with Julia”, at the “Brazilian Topology Meeting”. This is a famous event in Brazil that reunites many of the leading topologists in the world. Most of them are not programmers, but pure mathematicians. What are your advices …

Do you want to present the material or is it a hands-on session? If participants don’t have good programming experience, try to focus on the delivery on your own computer with the platform you like most. Then, at the end share the URL for people interested. Most people won’t be able to follow alon…

By the way, how is the ecosystem for TDA in Julia nowadays?

The idea is to present the material and run the code on my computer while I talk, while the audience can follow the already-ran code in a Quarto/Pluto notebook or run their own code.

The major package to calculate persistent homology is pretty well documented. I am now writing the Mapper and ToMATo algorithms in Julia, and creating some foundational packages (for example, a package that deals with arbitrary metric spaces and calculate balls, k-nearest neighbors, farthest point s…

Which packages? What they provide nowadays?

Ripserer provides the Vietoris-Rips and cubical filtrations; Mapper.jl will provide the mapper algorithm together with plotting functions; ToMATo.jl will provide the ToMATo clustering algorithm; MetricSpaces.jl will provide the basic types and algorithms (like the epsilon-net and farthest point sam…

I agree with the above. Do not ask the participants to install Julia or edit code during the workshop. It could descend into a ‘help me with this problem on my laptop’ session. Prepare some good and simple instructions on how to use juliaup then run some Julia code. A the end of the workshop point …

I guess you have seen this [image] [ANN] CoordRefSystems.jl Package Announcements Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) in native Julia @eliascarv and I are happy to share [image] with the geospatial community. CoordRefSystems.jl provides conversions between C…

I did a similar thing at a microsimulation conference in January. I think it went reasonably well. A few thoughts: it’s best not to do a workshop alone. Is there a colleague who can help you out? Not necessarily a Julia expert, just a second pair of eyes; as mentioned, your participants are likel…

I didn’t really get to clean that up nicely, but you may also consider GitHub - bbrehm/Sparips.jl: Sparips.jl: Practical sparsification of Rips complexes Especially for pure mathematicians, the exponential-time blowup of the Ripser algorithm on the solenoid is fun to see (and generally, fractals ar…

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