# Looking for Inspiration

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-inspiration/29958>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** data, machine-learning\
**Created:** [October 15, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-inspiration/29958 "2019-10-15T22:48:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Edward\_Roche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/edward_roche/32/10839_2.png) [@Edward\_Roche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Edward_Roche)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-inspiration/29958/1 "2019-10-15T22:48:52Z")

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I have taken some time off work and was supposed to be doing some painting but due to a delay I now find myself with 2 weeks off and nothing to do. I am looking to get started with Julia, a fun project that would show me something I cant do with other software, or can do but much slower.

Any ideas?

My day job is a data analyst focused on analyzing Life Insurance Data. The software we mostly used is R, Python and Tableau.

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**Author:** ![RoyiAvital](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/royiavital/32/571_2.png) [@RoyiAvital](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RoyiAvital)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-inspiration/29958/2 "2019-10-15T22:58:22Z")

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Image Denoising Algorithm.

It has everything in it, Estimation, Image Processing, Being computationally efficient, etc…

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**Author:** ![Mattriks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mattriks/32/351_2.png) [@Mattriks](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mattriks)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-inspiration/29958/3 "2019-10-15T23:12:24Z")

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Welcome to the Julia community!  
See:

> [@Hacktoberfest 2019 is starting tomorrow!](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hacktoberfest-2019-is-starting-tomorrow/29319):
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> Hello everyone! I am sure many people here are already familiar with [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/), but here is a recap: It is an “online competition”, where it is free to attend. You “win the competition” simply by contributing 4 Pull Requests to open source repositories on GitHub. The “prize” for this “win” is an amazing, limited edition T-shirt. The goal of the Hacktoberfest event is to simply promote open source coding. Since we are Julians here, I bet we are all quite fond of open source smiley . Many…

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**Author:** ![Edward\_Roche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/edward_roche/32/10839_2.png) [@Edward\_Roche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Edward_Roche)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-inspiration/29958/4 "2019-10-15T23:23:14Z")

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Good Steer @RoyiAvital

Image Processing Sounds like something that Julia would excel at compared to other languages. Would be a great place to get started.

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**Author:** ![anon92994695](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@anon92994695](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon92994695)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-inspiration/29958/5 "2019-10-16T01:14:37Z")

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Do something fun like NLP on the julia repositories registered in general. Find what lacks in the NLP juliaspace and contribute it to your own package or a preexisting one.

Find a cool package in the registries and try to contribute, or just mess with it.

Find all the bugs in my package and write unit tests for me 😛 (just kidding)

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 7:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-inspiration/29958/6 "2019-10-16T07:42:02Z")

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> [@Edward\_Roche](#):
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> show me something I cant do with other software, or can do but much slower.

Julia is indeed powerful, but depending on your previous exposure, it may take more than 2 weeks to gain enough experience with it to exploit its power.

For _learning_ Julia, I would first work through the manual, then it’s really up to you and what you are interested in.