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July 2013

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[ANN] ChiPy Monthly Meeting August 1st this Thursday at UofC downtown
by Brian Ray July 30, 2013

July 30, 2013

RSVP today http://chipy.org When: Thursday August 1st, 2013 at 7pm Where: The University of Chicago (Downtown) 303 East Upper Wacker Drive, #2300 Chicago, IL 60601 How good: Best Ever! We have moved the meeting to the first Thursday for a very good reason. Socially Good reason. Head over and hear some lightening talks from handful of the 40 social good doers from all over the world. Don't miss this once in a life time experience. Food and drink provided. If the lightening talks do not melt your brain, Joseph Curtin will. Deploy to the cloud while retaining the ability to deploy to $25 ARM based computer. This is deployment heaven in the clouds! This is going to be great. Topics: - *Lightening talks on Summer Fellows for "Data Science for Social Good" (1 hr) By: http://dssg.io/people/ *4-6 presentations 5-7 minutes each from the summer fellowship program lead by The University of Chicago on "data science for social good" (ref http://dssg.io) Come hear from the 40 fellows (mostly grad students and some undergrads in CS and stats) from around the country. Most of the work is done in Python and partnering with non profits and government organizations - *Cluster Fun* (0:30:00 Minutes) By: Joseph Curtin An overview of deploying to a cloud solution while retaining the ability to deploy to a raspberry pi. Automate the instantiation of your cluster no matter the hardware. Utilizing libcloud, we'll talk to AWS and Rackspace. Utilizing Paramiko we'll talk to a Raspberry-Pi, AWS, and Rackspace. - Source code and slides will be available at the start of the presentation. https://github.com/jbcurtin/cedar RSVP here http://chipy.org -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717

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[ANN] ChiPy July meeting this Thurs at Wargaming
by Brian Ray July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

RSVP today for the best meeting ever -> http://chipy.org WHEN: Thursday July 11th 2013 at 7pm WHERE: [image: Inline image 1] Wargaming West 651 W Washington Blvd Suite 600 Chicago, IL 60661 at Washington and Des Plaines (Food and drink provided) Founded in the late 90's by a group of military strategy enthusiasts, Wargaming develops gaming software and support now over 45 million registered players. TOPICS: - *Asynchronous I/O in Python 3* (0:45:00 Minutes) By: Feihong Hsu I'm going to talk about PEP 3156 and go over basic usage of the reference implementation, codenamed Tulip. - *ipython / notebook demo* (0:20:00 Minutes) By: Jason Wirth ipython was a big focus of Scipy, Fernando gave a keynote, Brian gave a talk, and there was a tutorial. ipython appeals to a broad audience from beginners to advanced users. IDLE is awful and I basically learned Python using iPython. Presenter will touch on the powerful features and extensibility for advanced users. - *A SciPy recap: Tracking history and provenance with Sumatra* (0:05:00 Minutes) By: Sheila Miguez This lightning talk recaps a [talk on Sumatra]( http://pyvideo.org/video/2039/using-sumatra-to-manage-numerical-simulations…) from the reproducible science track at SciPy2013. RSVP Here -> http://chipy.org -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717

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