Elise has been doing software for 15 years, from startups to large consultancies. She’s tried her hand at many technologies, wrote a book about developing games in Haskell, and is now doing data science and engineering with Mastodon C. She enjoys hard problems, tangly maths, science fiction, running, making and consuming food.
Talks I've Given
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The Return of Clojure Data Science
Featuring Elise Huard
Incanter is no longer actively maintained, and there is a real lack of good tooling to do data science in Clojure. Most of the action in Data Science happens in R and python, with the occasional big player in java. I’ll be talking about our work to bring the Clojure data science ecosystem back to...
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Ruby’s bin men: a closer look at the garbage collector
Featuring Elise Huard
In this talk for the London Ruby User Group, Elise Huard will explain The Garbage Collector, what the impact of garbage collection is on our programs, and what future could be.
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Ruby goes to Hollywood
Featuring Elise Huard
Elise Huard will be at LRUG give this talk on a brief overview of the state of concurrency in Ruby, concurrency models used in other languages, and why actors might be the way to go.
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Elise Huard - Rails and the internet of things
Featuring Elise Huard
What is the internet of things, and how can the Rails community move into that area?
Internet availability is increasingly common - many places offer WIFI, and data plans for mobile users become more and more affordable.