Hey ChiPy,
We have a great meeting planned with a bunch of great talks to start out
the new year. Hope to see you all there!
Thank you to our host and food/drink sponsor TEKSystems!
Please be sure to RSVP by noon the day of the event.
*When:*Thursday Jan. 10, 2019, 6 p.m.
6:00pm Doors open
6:30pm: Meeting starts
*How:*You can RSVP at chipy.org <http://www.chipy.org/> by noon the day of
the event.
*Where:*
TEKSystems
111 N. Canal Street
*What:*
- *Three Python Nuances I Wish I'd Known Earlier*
By: Jess Unrein
Experience Level: Novice
I'll briefly go over three Python gotchas that have given me headaches
in the past that I wish I had known about earlier. We'll talk about a good
use case for deepcopy, why default mutable arguments are unexpectedly
tricky, and the difference "is" and "==" comparators.
- *What's the deal with Florida's news?*
By: Jordan Nelson
Experience Level: Novice
When thinking about Florida News many have heard of the ubiquitous
Florida man. This talk will look at news from around the country and attempt
to quantify if Florida man truly exists. I used Python to build functions
that scrape satirical, national, and local news sites and built a basic
model to compare news across various states. Python libraries highlighted
in this talk include: requests, Beautiful Soup, and sklearn.
- *Busy-Beaver: Increasing Community Engagement with Python*
By: Aly Sivji , Chris Luedtke
Experience Level: Novice
With over four thousand members, the Chicago Python Users Group is one
of the largest Python communities in the world. Slack has become the primary
method of communication amongst members in-between events. We developed an
open-source Slack bot, codename: Busy Beaver, to increase member
engagement. This talk will introduce Busy Beaver, provide a high-level
walkthrough of its architecture and code, and discuss the future roadmap of
the project.
- *Advent of Code*
By: Sree P
Experience Level: Novice
Breif overview of “Advent Of Code” and walkthrough of one of the
challenges
- *Staying alive with systemd*
By: Siva Manivannan
Experience Level: Intermediate
Keep your Python applications alive and kicking with systemd.
*Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsors:
Metis and TelnyxAlso thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree,
Imaginary Landscape, Lumere, and Signature Consultants. Also, thank you to
our Silver sponsor: Markit.Please be aware of our code of
conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/
<http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/>*
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Joe J. Jasinski
www.joejasinski.com
