Personal highlights from PyCon 2014 in Montreal.
..........................................................................................................PyCon US RecapLars YenckenMelbourne Python User Group2 Jun 2014
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..........................................................................................................My focusPython as a data science toolkit
..........................................................................................................Data science▶ IPython project’s 2.x releases▶ Modal keybindings▶ Interative widgets▶ sklearn▶ Becoming the standard toolkit for machine learning in Python▶ pandas▶ Once the new shiny, now the standard
..........................................................................................................Web stacksDjango and Flask have momentum
..........................................................................................................Python 3▶ Python 3.4 just released (pip, enum, asyncio, …)▶ Old, large codebases will migrate to 2.7 but not beyond▶ Everyone else… time to switch your default Python?▶ Personally: using both pyenv and anaconda
..........................................................................................................import asyncio@asyncio.coroutinedef greet_every_two_seconds():while True:print(’Hello World’)yield from asyncio.sleep(2)loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()loop.run_until_complete(greet_every_two_seconds())
..........................................................................................................Diversity▶ Today: gender▶ In industry: 1 in 6 software engineers women▶ At PyCon: 1 in 3 speakers/attendees women▶ Challenges begin in high school teaching
..........................................................................................................Outstanding talks
..........................................................................................................Julie Lavoie / Analyising Rap Lyrics in Pythonhttp://pyvideo.org/video/2658/analyzing-rap-lyrics-with-python
..........................................................................................................Greg Wilson / Software Carpentry: Lessons Learnedhttp://pyvideo.org/video/2649/software-carpentry-lessons-learned
..........................................................................................................Elena Williams / Hitchhikers Guide to Participating inOpen Sourcehttp://pyvideo.org/video/2646/hitchhikers-guide-to-participating-in-open-source
..........................................................................................................Well that’s me...Been watching PyVideo? What did you enjoy?http://pyvideo.org/category/50/pycon-us-2014