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Description

cross post only after this PR has been merged in:
https://github.com/Quansight/Quansight-website/pull/428

NumFOCUS announcement:
https://numfocus.medium.com/numfocus-projects-receive-nasa-grants-deee374e7a57

Proposal:
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/viewrepositorydocument/cmdocumentid=843923/solicitationId=%7B958CF134-D655-E512-B5AD-84501D14A0C1%7D/viewSolicitationDocument=1/OSTFL20%20Abstracts.pdf

3 year grant to fund maintenance of NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn, with a line item focused on sharing CI expertise between projects. At a high level, on the scikit-learn side:

  1. Maintenance: Triaging & Code Review, etc.
  2. Improve Performance: Single node using Cython+OpenMP and running on other array libraries (CuPy)
  3. Improve Pandas interoperability

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Wait for Quansight-website PR #428 to merge, then review the NumFOCUS announcement and NASA proposal linked in the issue. Use the blog's existing post conventions to cross-post the announcement; done means the post is published only after that prerequisite is complete.

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Assessment

Tech stack
numpy, pandas, python, scikit-learn
Domain
content
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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