[SGVLUG] July 12th @ DuPars: Working with Data in the Unix Shell

[Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG]

A reminder, LUG meeting tomorrow (Thursday) at Du Pars.
We will hear about some interesting command line data analysis tools from
their author.
Details below.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com>
wrote:

> Join us for our monthly LUG meeting, featuring some very interesting shell
> data tools written by this month's speaker, Dima Kogan.
>
> Thursday, July 12, 2018
> 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
>
> Du-Par's Restaurant and Bakery
>
> 214 S Lake Ave · Pasadena
>
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=214+S+Lake+Ave%2C+Pasadena%2C+CA%2C+US>
> Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/251990619
>
> The UNIX shell is a useful environment to get work done. There're a number
> of standard, simple tools that talk to each other via a universal
> interface: the pipeline. This talk focuses on methods to manipulate and
> visualize data directly in the shell, without moving to specialized
> environments (numpy, matlab, etc). Specifically I will demonstrate and
> describe
>
> feedgnuplot - a tool plot data coming in on STDIN
> vnlog - a toolkit to read, write and manipulate columnar ASCII data
>
> These are independent tools that are useful standalone, but with shell
> piping are EXTRA useful together and in conjunction with other standard
> UNIX tools. This unification of data processing and normal shell usage
> enable powerful workflows that are otherwise unavailable.
>
> SPEAKER:
>
> Dima Kogan - Robotics Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
>
> Dima is a long-time user and contributor to various Free Software
> projects. He lives in the shell inside Emacs on his Debian box, and is
> constantly looking for ways to save keystrokes. He plays with robotics
> tools during the day, and tries to give away as much of his work as
> possible.
>
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