Python: The People's Programming Language

PyCon Philippines 2016 Keynote presentation

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1. Python
   The People’s Programming Language
   Carol Willing
   @willingcarol on Twitter
   willingc everywhere else
   

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2. Possibilities
   

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4. Me
   Manila
   1998
   

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5. Diversity
   

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6. Communication
   Actions
   Ideas
   

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8. Family
   

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9. Education
   

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10. Caring
    

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11. write * speak * code
    

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12. Communication
    Actions
    Ideas
    

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13. Seeds
    Flow
    Mix
    Ideas
    

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14. 1966 - 50 years ago
    Agriculture
    http:/
    /atlas.media.mit.edu/en/
    

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15. 1986 - 30 years ago
    Electronics, Textiles, and Agriculture
    

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16. 2013 - 3 years ago
    Technology and computers
    

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18. 2026 - 10 years future
    ???
    

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19. Idea flow
    

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20. Mix and remix
    

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21. write * speak * code
    

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22. Communication
    Actions
    Ideas
    

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23. “Packaged intervention is easy.
    Nurturing individual heart,
    mind, and will is hard. We need
    more taking the hard road.”
    - Kentaro Toyama
    Fellow, The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics
    and Transformative Values at MIT
    Lead
    

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24. Reina Reyes
    Ask questions
    Embrace wonder
    Encourage
    Lead
    Confirmation of general relativity on large
    scales from weak lensing and galaxy velocities
    Nature, 11 March 2010
    

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25. Law of Amplification
    Follow
    

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26. Follow
    

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27. There will be naysayers…
    Resilience
    

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28. “Use your
    superpowers
    proudly”
    Resilience
    

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29. write * speak * code
    

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30. Communication
    Actions
    Ideas
    

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31. Computational narratives
    and
    human stories
    

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32. Cross discipline
    communication
    complex issue of
    water quality
    

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33. Education
    Learning curve, experimentation,
    real data, large datasets
    

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34. write * speak * code
    

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35. Encouragement
    Turn your possibilities into reality
    Actions
    Ideas
    Communication
    YOU
    

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36. Jupyter
    Language agnostic notebooks
    JupyterHub for education
    Computational narratives
    try.jupyter.org
    

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37. The Zen of Jupyter
    import you
    Knowing why is better than how.
    Computational narrative is better than code.
    Understandable is better than jargon.
    Ultimately, people matter. Treat them well.
    

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38. Grants
    PyCon US
    Blog
    Become a member: python.org/psf-landing
    PSF
    

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39. What will you?
    write
    speak
    code
    Podcast - commute
    Songs, songs, songs
    Word out - international conferences
    study groups - pyladies remote
    Workshops - Django Girls, PyLadies Cebu
    mobile education - JupyterHub dream
    Design and web - static sites, cookiecutter
    Children’s book about Reina Reyes
    mathematics and music ebooks
    amplify the good work - rappler
    

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40. Python
    The People’s Programming
    Language
    

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41. Thank you!
    Carol Willing
    @willingcarol on Twitter
    willingc everywhere else
    

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42. http:/
    /www.indiebound.org/book/9781610395281 Geek
    Heresy book photo
    Alex “Sandy” Pentland, The Data Driven Society,
    Scientific American, October 2013.
    Confirmation of general relativity on large scales from weak lensing and galaxy velocities1
    Reinabelle Reyes1, Nature 464, 256-258 (11 March 2010
    http:/
    /networkx.github.io/documentation/latest/examples/drawing/edge_colormap.html
    http:/
    /atlas.media.mit.edu/en/
    http:/
    /atlas.media.mit.edu/static/pdf/atlas/AtlasOfEconomicComplexity_Part_II.pdf
    

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43. Children’s book about Reina Reyes
    mathematics and music ebooks
    amplify the good work
    rappler
    Podcast - commute
    Songs, songs, songs
    Word out - international conferences
    study groups - pyladies remote
    Workshops - Django Girls, PyLadies Cebu
    mobile education - JupyterHub dream
    Design and web - static sites, cookiecutter
    

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