Topics

• What’s new in Pydantic V2
  By: Adrian Garcia Badaracco
  Experience Level: Intermediate
  Length: 30 Minutes
  Description:

  I'll be going over new features and changes in Pydantic V2. Pydantic is a very popular schema definition and data validation library for Python.

• Building a Missing Persons Database with Django and React
  By: Tatyana Parks
  Experience Level: Novice
  Length: 10 Minutes
  Description:

  Son Irremplazables('They are Irreplaceable' in Spanish) is a grassroots initiative committed to raising awareness about the issue of missing individuals in the Dominican Republic. In this presentation, we will delve into the development of a missing persons database, leveraging the power of Django as the backend framework and React as the frontend library. Join us as we explore this application's technical intricacies designed to assist in the search and recovery efforts for missing individuals. By highlighting the disappearances and their impact, the website aims to bring attention to this pressing social concern, advocate for solutions, and support affected family members while they search for their loved ones.

• Reproducibly building and analyzing knowledge graphs with Nextflow, Neo4j and Python
  By: Chase Clark
  Experience Level: Intermediate
  Length: 20 Minutes
  Description:

  Demonstration of using Python as the core of a multi-language workflow to mine through terabytes of genomic data.

• pydistcheck: detect portability issues in Python package distributions
  By: James Lamb
  Experience Level: Intermediate
  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description:

  In this talk, attendees will learn about some common issues with software packages that can make them difficult to host, download, and install. With a specific focus on Python packages, this talk covers "pydistcheck", a linter that can report such portability issues (https://github.com/jameslamb/pydistcheck). If you like linters and Python packaging, this talk is for you!