Hey all,
ChiPy's August meeting is almost here. We have some good talks lined up
this month. Hope to see you there!
*When:*Thursday August 10th
6:00pm: Doors open; food arrives
7:00pm: Talks Start promptly at 7
*How:*You can rsvp at chipy.org <http://www.chipy.org/> or via our Meetup
<https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/241802389/> group.
*Where:*
ProcuredHealth
33 N LaSalle Chicago, IL 60602
After entering the building, check in with security and go down one level
to The Vault.
*What:*
- *Selenium: Doing Magic with Websites Using Python*
By: Seth Weidman
Experience Level: Intermediate
Selenium is an excellent package that lets you dynamically interact with
websites right from your Jupyter Notebook. At Metis, we teach Selenium
early in our bootcamp. We have a great Selenium tutorial that involves lets
you make a reservation on OpenTable using Python. In addition, several
students have already completed excellent projects using Selenium. During
this talk, Seth Weidman, a Senior Data Science Instructor at Metis, as well
as the following two current Metis students [TO BE DETERMINED] will be
presenting the projects that they just completed.
- *Tracking FCC bots with Python*
By: Chris Sinchok
Experience Level: Novice
I've been doing a bunch of analysis on the recent FCC public comments in
Python (https://medium.com/@csinchok/an-analysis-of-the-anti-title-ii-bots-463f1848…).
Due to this work, I was quoted in Gizmodo, Ars Technica, and the BBC. I'd
like to talk about how I approached this problem, how Python helped make
sense of my findings, and what my conclusions are.
- *Fortune-Telling with Python: An Intro to Time Series Modeling *
By: Jonathan Balaban
Experience Level: Intermediate
Description: a pythonic tour of time series methodologies and packages,
including ARIMA, seasonal models, and Markov approaches. Intermediate
level with basic statistics and time data familiarity required. Bio:
Jonathan Balaban is a senior data scientist, strategy consultant, and
entrepreneur with ten years of private, public, and philanthropic
experience. He currently teaches business professionals and leaders the art
of impact-focused, practical data science at Metis.
Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsor: Metis.
Also thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary
Landscape, Signature
Consultants, and Telnyx.
Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/
--
Joe J. Jasinski
www.joejasinski.com
