Stay warm, come to ChiPy... This month's meeting is brought to you by Dev
Bootcamp, an immersive 9-week computer programming program.
http://devbootcamp.com/ Food and Drink Provided! Free and open to
everyone ( no prior Python or Programming experience required). Bring a
friend.
RSVP -> http://chipy.org
Dev Bootcamp
351 West Hubbard St. Suite #701
Chicago IL 60654
When: Jan. 9, 2014, 7 p.m.
Topics:
- *Lexical Graphs with Natural Language Processing using NLTK*
(0:30:00 Minutes)
By: Brian Ray
Brian will talk about his experiences using Python and NLTK
http://nltk.org/ to run language comparisons to generate lexical
difference graphs like the one mentioned in the "Lexical Distance Among the
Languages of Europe" article. http://bit.ly/1cS46Ba The focus will be on
the NLTK and how its internals work to process a language. This talk will
be his best one ever.
- *Garbage Collection w/ Ref. Cycles*
(0:30:00 Minutes)
By: Aaron Brady
Reference counting is very useful but it has an odd problem. We employ a
technique from graphs to approach it. The solution works but it's a bit
slow.
- *There were 986 roadway fatalities in Illinois in 2013. Where's the
data?*
(0:20:00 Minutes)
By: Nick Bennett
Seen on garish LED roadway signs all around Chicago on New Year's Eve,
2013: 986 TRAFFIC DEATHS IN 2013. It leads to many questions: On what
roads? When did the accidents happen? What do we do now? I'm scared to
drive. I will talk about purging my fears by finding the data to answer
some of those questions.
http://tothebeat.github.io/fatal-car-crashes/This talk will involve
PythonAnywhere, IPython, a module that's not even on
PyPi (dbfpy), searching for and finding open government data, CartoDB,
Google Fusion Tables, csv, and maybe Pandas. Rest assured, there will be no
graphic photos.
This will be our warmest meeting ever!
RSVP Today http://chipy.org
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Brian Ray
@brianray
(773) 669-7717
