Cluster Fun
By:
Joseph Curtin
An overview of deploying to a cloud solution while retaining the ability to deploy to a raspberry pi. Automate the instantiation of your cluster no matter the hardware. Utilizing libcloud, we'll talk to AWS and Rackspace. Utilizing Paramiko we'll talk to a Raspberry-Pi, AWS, and Rackspace. - Source code and slides will be available at the start of the presentation. https://github.com/jbcurtin/cedar
Lightening talks on Summer Fellows for "Data Science for Social Good"
By:
4-6 presentations 5-7 minutes each from the summer fellowship program lead by The University of Chicago on "data science for social good" (ref http://dssg.io) Come hear from the 40 fellows (mostly grad students and some undergrads in CS and stats) from around the country. Most of the work is done in Python and partnering with non profits and government organizations
93 Python enthusiasts attended this meeting.
ipython / notebook demo
By:
Jason Wirth
ipython was a big focus of Scipy, Fernando gave a keynote, Brian gave a talk, and there was a tutorial.
ipython appeals to a broad audience from beginners to advanced users. IDLE is awful and I basically learned Python using iPython. Presenter will touch on the powerful features and extensibility for advanced users.
Asynchronous I/O in Python 3
By:
Feihong Hsu
I'm going to talk about PEP 3156 and go over basic usage of the reference implementation, codenamed Tulip.
A SciPy recap: Tracking history and provenance with Sumatra
By:
Sheila Miguez
This lightning talk recaps a [talk on Sumatra](http://pyvideo.org/video/2039/using-sumatra-to-manage-numerical-simulations-sc) from the reproducible science track at SciPy2013.
113 Python enthusiasts attended this meeting.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: Ruby
By:
Ross Heflin
Ruby, what you need to know
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: QUASI
By:
Randy Baxley
1977 - A language, the description of which was handed to me on about one hundred and fifty mimeographed eight and one half by eleven sheets. Robert Sibley handed it to the class to use as our compiler project.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: Haskell or: How a List Comprehension Is Like a Burrito
By:
Greg Kettler
It's a compiled, statically typed, lazy, purely functional programming language. About as far as possible from Python? Not quite. The languages have a lot in common and Python has already borrowed a few tricks from Haskell.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: Go: come drink the delicious kool-aid
By:
David Sutton
From the makers of the wildly successful Plan 9 operating system and B programming language. Go is google's stab at a systems programming.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: CoffeeScript
By:
Feihong Hsu
A brief introduction to CoffeeScript.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: C# is slightly better than you might imagine
By:
Philip Doctor
If you find yourself accidentally writing c#, you can still have some fun.
111 Python enthusiasts attended this meeting.
Who saved The Onion, from being hacked by "Syrian Electronic Army"
By:
Sean Bloomfield
Well, this isn't at all Python related (or even all that technical), but at The Onion, we recently had a little run-in with the "hackers" from the "Syrian Electronic Army", and could talk about some lessons learned from that, if there's any interest.
Hy: A Lisp that transforms itself into the ython AST.
By:
Christopher Webber
apprenticeship model
By:
JP Bader
Pythonic protégés.
In-project virtualenvs
By:
Christopher Webber
89 Python enthusiasts attended this meeting.
Threadless Loves Python
By:
Mike Steder
In the last year the Threadless engineering department has almost completely changed from PHP and MySQL to Python and MongoDB. I would like to do a brief overview of how we use Python today which will cover our replatformed website, our API, and our internal message queuing system.
SXSW Interactive 2013
By:
Adam Forsyth
- Themes
- Keynotes
- Chicago Tech @ SXSW
- Other Highlights
- Q&A
Concurrency in Python and other Languages
By:
Daniel Griffin
- 1 minute pitch about OpDemand and what we do.
- Processing HTTP requests with Twisted.
- Dealing with blocking code in Twisted (couchdb-python and pika).
- Doing long running work with Celery from Twisted.
- Communicating between web workers with ZMQ.
- Writing code that can be concurrent.
105 Python enthusiasts attended this meeting.