Archives for March 2012

Advanced matplotlib tutorial with library author John Hunter

PyData: Data Analysis in Python with Pandas

Tutorial: scikit-learn - Machine Learning in Python

1. PSF Sprints - Supporting the community one sprint at at time

10. FOSS@RIT: Python-Powered Student Engagement

11. A Startup Junkie's Journey to Python via Java, C#, Ruby and Scala

12. Accessibility and You

14. preshrunk-cotton: Windows Help Files for Lazy People

18. Bump Pumps Up with Diesel

19. Millions of Genes with Python and Jython

2. Twisted Matrix High Scores

22. Quantitative Finance Research with Python: Statistical arbitrage.

23. Round the world with a million objects

24. Indico - A Scientific Collaboration Platform

25. An Overview of the Python African Computational Science and Engineering Tour Project

26. Data analysis and visualization in atmospheric sciences

27. Reading and writing spatial data for the non-spatial programmer

29. Keeping the Chandra satellite cool with Python and Xija

3. Hacking for Humanity with Python: The CuiBono political app

31. ProofCheck: Checking Mathematical Proofs written in TeX

32. Python in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery

34. CrossCompute is a web platform where users can run algorithms

35. PyMC: Markov chain Monte Carlo in Python

36. Using Python for robotics with Aldebaran's humanoid robot NAO.

37. Building a Robot that Can Play Angry Birds on a Smartphone (or Robots are the Future of Testing)

38. ABC: the mother of Python

39. Python under PyCScope

4. How the Tor Project uses Python

40. MediaGoblin: The Road to Federation

41. Git 'er Done Fast! Developing Apps for the Cloud with Django and PyMongo in 30 Minutes or Less

42. The Future of Python Packaging

43. What is IPv6 and why does my website I need it

46. HTSQL : a navigational query language for relational databases

48. Advanced Parallel Primitives in SPM.Python for Data and Graph Analytics

7. The Artemis Project: Promoting Computer Science to High School Girls

8. BoolPy: Using Python for Symbolic Boolean Algebra Simplification

9. Developing Humanitarian Packages with Sugar and Python

Building A Python-Based Search Engine

Deep Freeze: building better stand-alone apps with Python

Diversity in practice: How the Boston Python User Group grew to 1700 people and over 15% women

Improving Documentation with "Beginner's Mind" (or: Fixing the Django Tutorial)

Keynote: Guido Van Rossum

More than just a pretty web framework, the Tornado IOLoop

Parsing Horrible Things with Python

Parsing sentences with the OTHER natural language tool: LinkGrammar

Patterns for building large Pyramid applications

Python, Linkers, and Virtual Memory

Robot NAO

Sketching a Better Product

Sunday Afternoon Lightning talks (90 minutes)

Sunday Morning Lightning talks

Transifex: Beautiful Python app localization

web2py: ideas we stole and ideas we had

What's new and interesting in standard library

What's New in Python on Windows

Writing GIMP Plug-ins in Python

A Gentle Introduction to GIS

Advanced Celery

Building a Kinect game with Python

Building a Robot that Can Play Angry Birds on a Smartphone, (or Robots are the Future of Testing)

Cache Rules Everything Around Me

Coroutines, event loops, and the history of Python generators

Cross-Compiling Python & C Extensions for Embedded Systems

Designing Embedded Systems with Linux and Python

Django Form Processing Deep Dive

Django Templating: More Than Just Blocks

Flexing SQLAlchemy's Relational Power

Getting the Most Out of Python Imports

Hand Coded Applications with SQLAlchemy

How CherryPy supports Python 2 and 3

How the PyPy JIT works

David Beazley Keynote: Tinkering with PyPy

Mailman 3

Making Jython Faster and Better

Making maps with Python

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

Polyglot Programming with Python: Python/Scala Interop

Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?

Project Gado: Building an Open Archival Scanning Robot Using Python and Arduino

Python and HDF5 - Fast Storage for Large Data

Python for data lovers: explore it, analyze it, map it

Python for makers

Python Meets the Arduino

Python Software Foundation Chairman's Address

RESTful APIs With Tastypie

Saturday Evening Lightning talks (60 minutes)

Saturday Morning Lightning talks

Sharing is Caring: Posting to the Python Package Index

Spatial data and web mapping with Python

Storing, manipulating and visualizing timeseries using open source packages in Python

Storm: the Hadoop of Realtime Stream Processing

Testing and Django

The Email Package: Past, Present, and Future

The Journey to Give Every Scientist a Supercomputer

The Pyed Piper: A Modern Python Alternative to awk, sed and Other Unix Text Manipulation Utilities

Using fabric to standardize the development process

Web Server Bottlenecks And Performance Tuning

What Python can learn from Java

What you need to know about datetimes

Why PyPy by example

A Noob Speaks to Noobs: Your First Site in the Cloud

A resume-based WSGI Load Balancer

Advanced Security Topics

Apache Cassandra and Python

Build reliable, traceable, distributed systems with ZeroMQ

Certainty in an Uncertain World: Gaining Confidence through Security Testing

Code Generation in Python: Dismantling Jinja

Data, Design, Meaning

Decorators and Context Managers

Extracting musical information from sound

Fake It Til You Make It: Unit Testing Patterns With Mocks and Fakes

Fast Test, Slow Test

Graph Processing in Python

How to make your websites more accessible

Interfaces and Python

Introduction and Welcome

Introduction to Metaclasses

Introduction to PDB

Introspecting Running Python Processes

IPython: Python at your fingertips

Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator

Keynote: Stormy Peters, Mozilla Corporation

Make Sure Your Programs Crash

Non-Profit Centers of FLOSS Development

pandas: Powerful data analysis tools for Python

PBS KIDS: Building a login system for kids and teens in Python

Permission or Forgiveness?

Practical Machine Learning in Python

Practicing Continuous Deployment

Putting Python in PostgreSQL

pytest - rapid and simple testing with Python

Python Metaprogramming for Mad Scientists and Evil Geniuses

Sage: Open Source Math in Python

Scalability at YouTube

Speedily Practical Large-Scale Tests

Static analysis of Python extension modules using GCC

Stepping Through CPython

Stop Mocking, Start Testing

Stop Writing Classes

The Art of Subclassing

Through The Ether And Back Again: What Happens To A Packet When You Send It

Throwing Together Distributed Services With Gevent

DevOps for Python: Doing More With Less

Documenting Your Project With Sphinx

High Performance Python I

High Performance Python II

Introduction to Game Development

Introduction to Interactive Predictive Analytics in Python with scikit-learn

Making interactive maps for the web

Optimize Performance and Scalability with Parallelism and Concurrency

Plotting with matplotlib

Python Epiphanies

Social Network Analysis with Python

Bayesian statistics made (as) simple (as possible)

Data analysis in Python with pandas

Django in Depth

Faster Python Programs through Optimization

How to get the most out of your PyPy

Introduction to Django

IPython in-depth: high-productivity interactive and parallel python

MongoDB and Python

SQL for Python Developers

Web scraping: Reliably and efficiently pull data from pages that don't expect it

Writing a Pyramid application

Boosting NumPy with Numexpr and Cython

Image Processing in Python with scikits-image

Python in Big Data with an overview of NumPy & SciPy

The Disco MapReduce Framework

Workshop Panel with Guido van Rossum