Talk proposal: JavaScript in Science

[jackparmer]

The first version of Plotly was written in Oakland, California. It was a simple web app where you could drag-and-drop a data file in the browser, and it would try to graph the data as a line or scatter chart. I had quit a programming job in Mountain View, and was working mostly at Oakland's newly-opened Awaken cafe. I was trained as a physicist, but my past few years in industry prior to Plotly had unexpectedly led me to JavaScript programming.

My company, Plotly, is rewriting scientific graphing for the web. In JavaScript. Graphing has historically been tied to a desktop program -- Excel, MATLAB, R (ggplot), Python (matplotlib), Tableau, etc -- But there is a compelling future where graphing is a separate service from these programs, browser-based, and interoperable between all of them.

I want to talk about this paradigm of scientific, language-agnostic graphing in a browser. In particular,
--- The travails of writing scientific code and algorithms in JavaScript
--- Why JavaScript is as important to the future of science as Python or MATLAB
--- How scientific, "old-line" industries everywhere (semiconductor, aerospace, pharma, etc) are starting to take serious, unexpected looks at JavaScript

jack[at]plot[dot]ly

[brycebaril]

Accepted for Nothing Is Sacred :)

[brycebaril]

I tried to determine your email address but if I got it wrong, drop me a line at bryce@ravenwall.com about details!

[mikeal]

If you haven't already, please register yourself as a speaker for JSFest:

https://ti.to/jsfest/oakland?release_id=nqflw0il0qw

If you get it in within the next few days you'll probably get a much nicer conference badge :)

And for any clever buggers who think they can register for free using that link, we will be checking the names against the accepted speakers list :)