# Seattle, 28 August: User meetup

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855>\
**Category:** Meetups\
**Tags:** seattle\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855 "2018-08-21T21:13:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855/1 "2018-08-21T21:13:11Z")

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**Where:** 83 S King St, #250, Seattle WA; hosted by [Metis](https://www.thisismetis.com/)  
**When:** Start at 6:00pm  
**What:** Talk by Jeff Bezanson, Lightning talks, and food

We hope you can join us for a fun evening with a talk by Jeff Bezanson and maybe a couple of lightning talks (interested in speaking? contact me). It should be interesting for experts and novices alike!

Please sign-up at [Login to Meetup | Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/Metis-Seattle-Data-Science/events/254042390/)

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**Author:** ![bobmccrory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bobmccrory/32/5137_2.png) [@bobmccrory](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bobmccrory)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855/2 "2018-08-23T18:24:10Z")

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I’m planning to attend; this will be my first time. Is there anywhere I need to go to sign up?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855/3 "2018-08-23T21:37:46Z")

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Just added the sign-up link for Meetup!

> **[Login to Meetup | Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/Metis-Seattle-Data-Science/events/254042390/)**
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> Not a Meetup member yet? Log in and find groups that host online or in person events and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

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**Author:** ![ericagol](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ericagol/32/5392_2.png) [@ericagol](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ericagol)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855/4 "2018-08-26T20:53:53Z")

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Dear Valentin -

I just found out about this meet up, but I would be happy to give a lightning talk on a new fast one-dimensional Gaussian Process algorithm developed by myself, Sivaram Ambikasaran, and Dan Foreman-Mackey. Dan and I have written a Julia version: [celerite.jl](https://github.com/ericagol/celerite.jl)

Cheers, Eric Agol

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**Author:** ![cscherrer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cscherrer/32/7631_2.png) [@cscherrer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cscherrer)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855/5 "2018-08-28T23:34:43Z")

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We’ve added another speaker!! Eric Agol (UW) will present Celerite, a fast and scalable approach for 1-dimensional Gaussian processes, with implementations in Julia, Python, and C++.

All that, and pizza too!

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**Author:** ![cscherrer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cscherrer/32/7631_2.png) [@cscherrer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cscherrer)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855/6 "2018-08-31T16:50:04Z")

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Thanks to @jeff.bezanson, @vchuravy, @staticfloat, and @ericagol for presenting, and to @ararslan and @bobmccrory for lively discussion.

Also in attendance (but maybe not on discourse yet?) were Jay Coskey, Ryan Murray, Dan Allison, and @dellison . Am I missing people?

Now’s the time to start thinking about next month. An introductory session would be great, but can we target more specifically? A few possibilities:

- Basic programming
- Ecosystem in general
- Julia for Python users, maybe specifically things that are hard in Python and easy in Julia
- Some basics, plus calling Python, R, etc

What would be most useful for you, and what would pull in the most people?

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**Author:** ![dellison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@dellison](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dellison)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seattle-28-august-user-meetup/13855/7 "2018-08-31T17:46:44Z")

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Many thanks to Chad, to Metis for hosting, and everyone who was involved with organizing and all who gave talks! It was really great to meet everyone, and I thought all the talks were really cool. Can’t wait for the next one!