<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">PyOh April 2018</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">35+ people came - lots of newcomers </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Don’t forget PyOhio! T-shirts are $35, but otherwise the conference is free for the 11th year in a row. July 28-29 2018 @ the Ohio Union on OSU campus </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Deadline for talks is May 15th</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">May 21st is the date for the next meeting- so that way, we avoid conflict with Memorial Day</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Numworks just launched - open source graphing calculator with MicroPython. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(228,175,10)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"><a href="https://www.numworks.com">https://www.numworks.com<span style="font-size:17pt;color:rgb(228,175,10)"></span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Guy Royse presented Machine Learning for Fun - and gave away a bunch of Nexosis t-shirts </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">IANADS - I am not a data scientist </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Big Foot is quite popular lately </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">? the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">? Tim Renner data.world - esoteric source of user submitted data. Has a database of Big Foot sightings, and UFO sightings, etc.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">The presence of data itself is information</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Imputation and Aggregation - using the Big Foot data, then preparing it for further analysis </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Only meaningful with time-series data.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Forecasting, predicting the future from historical data on Big Foot</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Nexosis demo - free version caps at 10MB of data</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Nexosis has built-in templates for this </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">? Elk ? Elm -> C# -> Python for Machine Learning</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">There is a very strong correlation of Big Foot sightings and the time the X-Files aired on television. A spike in the 70s matches up to the Six Million Dollar Man TV show.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Impact Analysis, comparing what should have happened, versus what actually happened.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">? postman - Perl that doesn’t suck</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Classification, what is this ?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Bigfoot Classinator - uses natural language processing to classify a free form text description of a Big Foot sighting </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">From the Bigfoot Field Research Organization :</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">A - I saw Big Foot </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">B - I saw evidence of Big Foot </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">C - Someone else told me they saw Big Foot </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Code snippet was Python on AWS Lambda using the Nexios restful API (three cheers for JSON !)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:20.3px"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Code is at Guyroyse/Bigfoot-classinator @ github</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Go to Nexosis.com for a free api key</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:17pt">Follow Guy on Twitter @guyroyse</span></p>