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Python at Nielsen By: Jordan Bettis
Date: March 14, 2019, 6 p.m.

Jordan will discuss how Nielsen uses Python to connect and process massive amounts of data in a next generation environment.

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Python @ Ascent By: Spencer Allee
Date: March 14, 2019, 6 p.m.

Ascent uses Python for most of its data science, data engineering, and machine learning / NLP - I'll give an overview of some of our key apps and use cases.

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Omega Grid's Python Blockchain By: Killian Tobin
Date: March 14, 2019, 6 p.m.

Omega Grid created a python blockchain to help utilities manage all the new solar panels, electric vehicles, and batteries on the grid. We are also running a python backend for our public facing rewards platform. We launched the rewards platform on Jan 1 in Burlington, VT as part of a peak shaving program.

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Python @ PricewaterhouseCoopers By: PwC AI Team
Date: March 14, 2019, 6 p.m.

Kay and Kevin from PwC will discuss how they use AI and Python in their every day work to help PwC internally and our external clients to solve their toughest problems with unique solutions.

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Python at Impossible Objects By: Len Wanger
Date: March 14, 2019, 6 p.m.

Impossible Objects is an award winning manufacturer of 3D printers for the industrial market. We use Python extensively throughout the organization from MIS systems, data analysis to preparing models and running our printers. This talk is an overview of how Python is used throughout the organization.

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Python at ActiveCampaign By: Ben Levin
Date: March 14, 2019, 6 p.m.

ActiveCampaign is using Python to transition from a PHP monolith to scalable microservices that can keep pace with the demands of our rapidly-growing customer base, as well as to train and deploy customer-facing ML models.

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Python@Panopta By: Jason Abate
Date: March 14, 2019, 6 p.m.

Python has been one of the fundamental technologies for Panopta's global monitoring infrastructure. I'll cover some of the more interesting ways we've used Python over the years, and our plans going forward.

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Python at Blick Art Materials By: Naomi Ceder
Date: March 14, 2019, 6 p.m.

Blick uses a wide range of technologies across over 70 stores nationwide and on 2 e-commerce sties, and Python (and Flask & Django) powers the systems we use to price our almost 90,000 items competitively.

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Busy-Beaver: Increasing Community Engagement with Python By: Aly Sivji By: Chris Luedtke
Date: Jan. 10, 2019, 6 p.m.

With over four thousand members, the Chicago Python Users Group is one of the largest Python communities in the world. Slack has become the primary method of communication amongst members in-between events. We developed an open-source Slack bot, codename: Busy Beaver, to increase member engagement. This talk will introduce Busy Beaver, provide a high-level walkthrough of its architecture and code, and discuss the future roadmap of the project.

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Beating Mastermind: Winning Games, Translating Math to Code, and Learning from Donald Knuth By: Adam Forsyth
Date: Nov. 8, 2018, 6 p.m.

Mastermind is a logic-based guessing game. Many years ago, Donald Knuth described a way to win the game in 5 moves or less. We’ll implement the game and the algorithm from the article. Come learn how to beat Mastermind and turn a paper by a famous scientist into code!

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