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Pycon 2014 Recap

Pycon 2014 Recap

Personal highlights from PyCon 2014 in Montreal.

Lars Yencken

June 02, 2014
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    PyCon US Recap
    Lars Yencken
    Melbourne Python User Group
    2 Jun 2014

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    My focus
    Python as a data science toolkit

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    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

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    Web stacks
    Django and Flask have momentum

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    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

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    import asyncio
    @asyncio.coroutine
    def 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())

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    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

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    Outstanding talks

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    Julie Lavoie / Analyising Rap Lyrics in Python
    http://pyvideo.org/video/2658/analyzing-rap-lyrics-with-python

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    Greg Wilson / Software Carpentry: Lessons Learned
    http://pyvideo.org/video/2649/software-carpentry-lessons-learned

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    Elena Williams / Hitchhikers Guide to Participating in
    Open Source
    http://pyvideo.org/video/2646/
    hitchhikers-guide-to-participating-in-open-source

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    Well that’s me...
    Been watching PyVideo? What did you enjoy?
    http://pyvideo.org/category/50/pycon-us-2014

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