Aim: A manageble and transparent OSX setup for all things data at NL Healthcare. This OSX configuration also aims to mimic the server environment (CentOS 7) as much as possible, for maximum portability of the data analytics stack.
Main stack:
- OSX (Yosemite at time of writing, El Capitan has just been released)
- Python 3.4 via conda package manager. Anaconda distribution by Continuum Analytics is our standard base-Python stack. jupyter notebook is our preferred analytics environment for interactive computing in various languages
- PostgreSQL 9.3, using MacPorts as the preferred package manager. In case an app is not available in MacPorts, we will use homebrew as a fall-back package manager
- Optional interactive computing languages: R, julia or any of the [supported languages](ht