JuliaCon 2020 (times are in UTC)

JuliaCon 2020 (times are in UTC)

David Anthoff

David Anthoff is an environmental economist who studies climate change and environmental policy. He co-develops the integrated assessment model FUND that is used widely in academic research and in policy analysis. His research has appeared in Science, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and other academic journals. He contributed a background research paper to the Stern Review and has advised numerous organizations (including US EPA and the Canadian National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy) on the economics of climate change.

He is an assistant professor in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously he was an assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment of the University of Michigan, a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley and a postdoc at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Ireland. He also was a visiting research fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

He holds a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in economics from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, a MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford (UK) and a M.Phil. in philosophy, logic and philosophy of science from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany).


Sessions

07-30
18:30
10min
The Queryverse
David Anthoff

This talk will give a quick introduction to the Queryverse. I will also give an update on new features since the last Juliacon.

Green Track
07-31
16:10
30min
Using VS Code for Julia development
David Anthoff

This talk will demonstrate how one can use the Julia extension for VS Code effectively. Special emphasis will be given to new features like the debugger, the workspace view, remote scenarios and support for Julia Notebooks (if finished by Juliacon).

Red Track
07-31
19:20
10min
The Julia Vega and Vega-Lite ecosystem
David Anthoff

The Queryverse has a powerful visualization story that is based on the Vega ecosystem. This talk will demonstrate how one can use the Vega family of packages to easily create simple and advanced visualizations with Julia and how the various packages are integrated with each other.

Green Track