Topics

• How to install Anaconda
  By: Kevin Nasto
  Experience Level: Novice
  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description: Ever want to avoid installing Python packages with complex dependencies such as sklearn? Ever have permissions issues installing a package? Anaconda is the answer. This talk describes why use it and how to get it set up.
• Machine Learning and Deduplication
  By: Forest Gregg
  Experience Level: Intermediate
  Length: 30 Minutes
  Description: Machine learning and record linkage: Finding duplicates or matching data when you don't have primary keys is one of the biggest challenges in preparing data for data science. At DataMade we have built a python, open source machine learning library to help developers, and a product Dedupe.io to help everyone else. We describe the problem and how we use machine learning to scale to tens of millions of records.
• Why python is the best first programming language and here is how to make it even better
  By: Jhankar Mahbub
  Experience Level: Novice
  Length: 15 Minutes
  Description: Meet Simon! He doesn't have a technology background, but he wants to be a programmer. Should he go to a boot camp with 17k or read 29,900,000 options provided by Google when he searched "Learn Python". Or he can join ChiPy mentorship program. While all of these will work, I would like to make his journey bit more enjoyable by presenting a more natural, friendlier, and a more interactive way to learn programming concepts. In this talk, we will look at functions, for loops, list comprehensions, and generators in a way that is easy for people like Simon to understand and use.