Chipy, The next main meeting is almost here! Hope to see you there. Thank you to Metis for hosting us! *When:*Thus Sep 13, 2018, 6:30 p.m. 6:00pm Doors open 6:30pm: Meeting Starts *How:*You can RSVP at chipy.org <http://www.chipy.org/> or via our Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/253770388/> group. *Where:* Metis 1033 West Van Buren St 3rd Floor Chicago, IL 60607 *What:* - *How to install Anaconda* By: Kevin Nasto Experience Level: Novice Ever want to avoid installing Python packages with complex dependencies such as sklearn? Ever have permissions issues installing a package? Anaconda is the answer. This talk describes why use it and how to get it set up. - *Machine Learning and Deduplication* By: Forest Gregg Experience Level: Intermediate Machine learning and record linkage: Finding duplicates or matching data when you don't have primary keys is one of the biggest challenges in preparing data for data science. At DataMade we have built a python, open source machine learning library to help developers, and a product Dedupe.io to help everyone else. We describe the problem and how we use machine learning to scale to tens of millions of records. - *Why python is the best first programming language and here is how to make it even better* By: Jhankar Mahbub Experience Level: Novice Meet Simon! He doesn't have a technology background, but he wants to be a programmer. Should he go to a boot camp with 17k or read 29,900,000 options provided by Google when he searched "Learn Python". Or he can join ChiPy mentorship program. While all of these will work, I would like to make his journey bit more enjoyable by presenting a more natural, friendlier, and a more interactive way to learn programming concepts. In this talk, we will look at functions, for loops, list comprehensions, and generators in a way that is easy for people like Simon to understand and use. *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/>* -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com