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Re: [science-iwg] Data Structures Project Proposal
Tracy - I agree, most domains have a concept of "data".  

I guess there is merit in using the "numerical" term - it seems to have been effective for NumPy.

Regards,
Ian

On 6 November 2015 at 13:43, <Peter.Chang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

 

I think we are open to any and all suggestions for the project name!

 

Peter

 

 

From: science-iwg-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:science-iwg-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy Miranda
Sent: 06 November 2015 13:41
To: Science Industry Working Group

Subject: Re: [science-iwg] Data Structures Project Proposal

 

Yes, I think that nicely illustrates the problem with the word 'data' - too overloaded.

 

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:55 PM, <Matt.Gerring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Mike,

 

I did have a quick look. My understanding is that Peter’s work is more for nD numerical arrays than eclipse-collections appears to be. It seems to be more a ‘richer java collections’.

 

Best Regards,

 

Matt

 

From: science-iwg-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:science-iwg-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Milinkovich
Sent: 06 November 2015 12:33
To: Tracy Miranda; Science Industry Working Group
Subject: Re: [science-iwg] Data Structures Project Proposal

 

 

I could be completely off base here, but ‎if you're interested in scalable data structures, you may be interested in the recently posted Eclipse Collections project. 

 

 

From: Tracy Miranda

Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 1:29 PM

To: Science Industry Working Group

Reply To: Science Industry Working Group

Subject: [science-iwg] Data Structures Project Proposal

 

Hi all,

 

One of the many fruitful topics of discussion at EclipseCon was data structures for the SWG, and I'd like to summarize the progress to date and solicit some input from the group. 

 

First a brief history:

Back in August in Trondheim, the SWG was in general agreement having a set of standardised data structures would be the way forward for good tool interoperability. Matt Gerring ran through pros & cons of different options and proposed we adopt Diamond's IDataset. 

 

Following on from that, Jonah Graham forked IDataset to make it more accesible to SWG members.

 

Peter Chang then further cleaned up and restructured the classes getting them into a very good state to be used by the community. 

 

The logical next step was to make this available as a standalone project as part of the Science Working Group. So this was brought up at the unconference this week. What I learnt is that a project can have 2 project co-leads. JayJay Billings recommended this (as is being done in Triquetrium) and it has a lot of merit. That way if we have Jonah Graham & Peter Chang as co-project leads we have a good split of responsibilities.

 

SWG members at the unconference were very enthusiastic and many offers of potential contributions as well. 

 

Also, that old issue of naming cropped up, e.g. Tobias raised some good points about how the naming is very generic, Idatasets represent ndarrays but perhaps we should consider other data structures too (e.g. what about dataframes...) 

 

In conclusion, we would like to go ahead and make this happen. Jay Billings has offered to get the ball rolling in terms of giving Eclipse Foundation the heads up. What we need now is your feedback, but mostly the list of 'interested parties' to strengthen the project proposal. 

 

Regards,

Tracy

 

 

 

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