Introduction to PySpark
By: Nusreth Baig
Date: June 11, 2015, 7 p.m.
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.
Conway's Game of Life: Programming in a non-language
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Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
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?
Is True true? : A mini-venture into Python & Ruby truth testing
By: Lorena Nicole
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
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.
R and Python for regression
By: Jerry Dumblauskas
Date: May 14, 2015, 9:48 a.m.
Let's compare our favorite language to an 'upstart' highly focused statistical language.
Postscript. Yes, it's a programming language
By: Ken Schutte
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
I'll describe Postscript - a interpreted, stack-based "page description language" used to produce vector graphics and documents.
as former C# developer the lessons I learned to become pythonic
By: JC LatinoTV
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
language comparison in 5 minutes
QML vs. Python
By: Patrick K. O'Brien
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
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
Go: Concurrency is Built In
By: Chris Foresman
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
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.