Make - Chris Paciorek

April 29, 2015 at 5-6:30pm in BIDS, 190 Doe Library

Attending

30 folks!

Chris Paciorek

Chris Paciorek is the statistical computing consultant in the Department of Statistics at Berkeley, as well as being a researcher and lecturer in the department. His research focuses on statistical methods (often Bayesian methods) applied to environmental and public health applications. He teaches the department’s graduate-level statistical computing class, Stat 243.

Make

Make is a ubiquitous command line tool that can help to automate building software and executing analysis pipelines.

For the material for today, please clone this Github repository: https://github.com/berkeley-scf/make-thw-2015

The primary document is this IPython Notebook

Lightning Talks

Kelly Rowland : CMake

CMake, by Kitware is an open source way to automate the configuration and generation of makefiles for building software in a cross platform way.

Jess Hamrick : SCons

SCons is a replacement for make. Interestingly, it was the result of a Software Carpentry code competition a very very long time ago.