Python for Product Managers

A talk given at ProductCamp Austin, July 20, 2013.

Transcript

1. Python  for  Product  Managers   David  Heller   @davidheller   heller1970@gmail.com      
2. h>p://xkcd.com/353/  
3. Python  +  Product  Management   If  this  is  your  image  please  let  me  know  so  I  can  give  you  credit!    
4. The  Zen  of  Python  (and  product  management?)   Beau%ful  is  be,er  than  ugly.   Explicit  is  be,er  than  implicit.   Simple  is  be,er  than  complex.   Complex  is  be,er  than  complicated.   Readability  counts.   Now  is  be,er  than  never.   Although  never  is  oBen  be,er  than  *right*  now.   If  the  implementa%on  is  hard  to  explain,  it's  a  bad  idea.   If  the  implementa%on  is  easy  to  explain,  it  may  be  a  good  idea.   h>p://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-­‐0020/    /  import  this    
5. What  type  of  data  driven  product   manager  are  you?  
6. A  (simple)  real  world  example   Dun  and  Bradstreet  dataset   906,471  rows   42  columns   611MB  text  file     Code  Example:  h>p://bit.ly/PythonforPM      
7. h>p://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python     h>p://learnpythonthehardway.org/     h>ps://developers.google.com/edu/python/     h>p://stackoverflow.com/