Pycon 2014 Recap

Personal highlights from PyCon 2014 in Montreal.

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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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