ChiPy Mentorship Oct-Dec 2015
(7 Minutes)
By: Tathagata
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The wait is over! ChiPy's Mentorship program returns for the third time. We learned a lot from the previous two mentorship program and will do things a bit differently this time. This will be a quick overview how we are going to conduct the ChiPy's Python mentorship program.

Exploring uWSGI
By: Chris Sinchok

uWSGI is a very popular software package, but most Python programmers just connect it to nginx, and leave it at that. I'll be exploring some of the more advanced features of uWSGI, and how they can make your life easier.

Setting Up Machine learning with anaconda
(20 Minutes)
By: Joshua Herman

5 min What is anaconda and how do i use it 5 min What is ipython 10 min Why machine learning is fun and how to do easy classification tasks

Why You Can't Sit With Us - Understanding Network Analysis in Python With Mean Girls
(40 Minutes)
By: Richard Harris

Network analysis is a handy tool used to understand group dynamics, provide product recommendations, and prevent homicides (and other things). This talk will introduce the theory behind network analysis and showcase the flexibility of Python's NetworkX library. No knowledge of network analysis (or Mean Girls) is needed, but basic knowledge of Python and the iPython Notebook, will be helpful. I gave this talk last month in Columbus OH at PyOhio 2015.

Automating a fishtank with python and IoT sensors
(60 Minutes)
By: Benjamin Chodroff

Fish tanks are simple enough that even a child can maintain them. I don't have children yet to maintain my tank, but luckily my very patient wife has allowed me to explore over engineering a solution. In this talk we'll explore how python scripts running on a Raspberry Pi can be used to measure and control many aspects of maintaining a fish tank or any number of IOT applications. A demo of the hardware connectivity will be shown which includes an Atlas Scientific pH meter, digital submerged temperature probe, liquid flow meter, liquid level sensor, video camera, and an eight channel relay controlling 12V DC water and 120V AC CO2 gas solenoids, peristaltic dosing pumps, and lighting. A live python coding demo with sample scripts will show how to connect to the serial devices and control the analog and digital hardware. We will broadcast the measured data and hardware states using the Eclipse Paho MQTT python client with the IBM IoT Foundation on BlueMix or IBM MessageSight to create a dashboard using a Javascript MQTT client and Freeboard.io. Finally, we'll create a linux script which allows the attached RaspiCam to live stream a HD video to Google's Youtube Live so the whole world can see.

Data Games in Python
(20 Minutes)
By: C. S. Schroeder
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There has been recent work on the taxonomy of games which are based, one way or another, on real world data. Typically these games help people learn that data or how to cope with it. The traditional examples are simulation games (flight, driving, etc.), while other games incorporate data in such a way that it is beneficial to learn the real world data in the game play (trivia). These types of data-games commonly have a domain specific focus. We intend to explore the possibility of interactive games which help people to learn data analysis, in general, implementing some such games in python using web2py and Scipy.

Keep calm and conda install
(20 Minutes)
By: Jonathan J. Helmus

Conda is a cross platform, package management system widely used in the scientific and data science Python communities. Although designed for Python packages, conda can be used to package and distribute software written in any language. This talk will cover how to use conda to install and manage scientific packages as well as how conda can be used to create isolated Python environment similar to virtualenv. Conda’s use within the Anaconda and Miniconda Python distributions will be discussed as an easy method for obtaining a full featured SciPy stack. Instructions on building packages with conda and hosting them on Anaconda.org will be covered briefly.

Formula One Data Visualization and Interpretation: adventures in mentorship
(7 Minutes)
By: Seth Difley

We participated in the Chipy mentorship program. Our plan for the mentorship was to use Python to visualize and interpret Formula One racing data. Join us to hear about the triumphs and obstacles we encountered along the way.

Building a Temperature Control Program for Monitoring Aquaculture Tanks Using Raspberry Pi and Python
(7 Minutes)
By: Thao Nguyen

Growth of the Mentee as a Pythonista I have turned from totally no experience with Python to gaining a good amount of knowledge in this language. I have learned from the very basic syntaxes to writing functions, then writing functions for different types of data (list, string, integer, decimal, float, epoch, threshold…) to serve various purposes; I know how to install redis, bokeh and flask for data acquisition, storage and performance; I also learned how to send an email alert from the Raspberry Pi with Python, thanks to the hackathon midterm meetup and my mentor. And because our project covers a wide range of activities, I have learned a lot of the fundamental elements of Python as well as programming in general. Above all, the best thing I have learned about Python through this Mentorship program is being confident and feeling more comfortable with it. Before this project, I wasn’t really sure about Python. Is it what I want or I might be better off with other languages? But after finished the project, I can say it was fun, and it serves well what I want to do. So I decided to move forward with it. And even though this is my very first programming language, but the dynamic from its strong supportive community, rich wonderful open sources and inspiring opportunities like this Mentorship program, all makes me feel that Python is a good choice. The Mentor's role When I asked my mentor for his advices on learning programming, he told me that to him, the best way to learn is doing projects, just like what we are doing. And that is so true. Sometimes I feel like the best way of learning how to swim is just jumping into the water, like doing a project; it can be scary, uncertain, and possibly failed, but it can also be very exciting and thrilling. Of course, one should only jump with a life preserver if she never knows how to swim before. And our mentors are life preservers. For a novice, it could be very confused at first of where to go, what direction to take, or how to get there; and easy be overwhelmed by too much information. The life saver may not be able to tell you what direction to take either, but at least, it will help you have some time to think and to practice before you decide your next moves. Obviously, a mentor is much better than a life saver, because no life saver can talk nor answer questions; and the best part is, they have a lot of experiences in their hands and are willing to share them with you. Thao Nguyen

Quantopian Trading
(7 Minutes)
By: Sean Ware

Brief introduction to the Quantopian api which is used for trading financial assest with python.

Why learning process matters to student dev's
By: Lane Campbell

I took up learning Python and Web Development early this year. I started attending Django lessons held by folks in the community. After the lessons students had trouble finding help learning together. To help everyone organize I founded the Django Study Group. I've been learning for the last six months but I am still a student. I joined the Chipy mentorship program to learn from a local professional Python developer. While enrolled in that I took the opportunity to join a student team led by Brian Ray for more experience learning to code. It was working alongside Brian that I learned the importance of how you build software.

Machine Learning with Python
(7 Minutes)
By: Alexander Flyax

I will briefly describe my journey into applied machine learning using Python packages like scikit-learn and statsmodels.

PyCon 2015 Review
(5 Minutes)
By: Jason Wirth

DePy 2015 Review
(5 Minutes)
By: Joe Jasinski

A quick recap of the Chicago DePy conference that occurred this month.

Introduction to PySpark
(60 Minutes)
By: Nusreth Baig

Big Shoulders Data Camp presents an “Introduction to PySpark”. One of our top instructors and data scientists, Adam McElhinney, will be giving a talk on working with PySpark, and presenting a use case. Audience is encouraged to come prepared to take notes, ask questions, and get a high-level understanding on one of Python's many analytical libraries.

Swift
By: Feihong Hsu

Erlang
By: Garrett Smith

ULS Erlang entry

QML vs. Python
(5 Minutes)
By: Patrick K. O'Brien

If you think Python is Pythonic, wait until you see QML from the point of view of an experienced Python developer. QML is the Qt Meta Language or Qt Modeling Language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML

Is True true? : A mini-venture into Python & Ruby truth testing
(5 Minutes)
By: Lorena Nicole

Review of truth testing in Python and Ruby. If "Explicit is better than Implicit" then why does Python decide that values like empty sequences are "falsey"? How is it that Ruby only defines false and nil as false values, isn't this more explicit? Highlight how languages embed their own philosophies of what is correct and true with surprising overlaps and at times odd contradictions.

Go: Concurrency is Built In
(5 Minutes)
By: Chris Foresman

Discussing the pros and cons of Golang from a Python user's perspective, particularly focusing on its built-in support for concurrency and the advantages over asyncio.

as former C# developer the lessons I learned to become pythonic
By: JC LatinoTV

language comparison in 5 minutes

Conway's Game of Life: Programming in a non-language
(5 Minutes)
By:

The Game of Life is Turing Complete. That means it can (theoretically) calculate anything that any computer can calculate. What does this mean in practice and how can you program a calculation when the total syntax is just flipping cells in a 2D bit field?

R and Python for regression
(5 Minutes)
By: Jerry Dumblauskas

Let's compare our favorite language to an 'upstart' highly focused statistical language.

Postscript. Yes, it's a programming language
(5 Minutes)
By: Ken Schutte

I'll describe Postscript - a interpreted, stack-based "page description language" used to produce vector graphics and documents.