[Baypiggies] Next months talk

[Glen Jarvis]

Our gracious MC / co-organizer, Jeff Fischer, will be giving our next talk.

We are still at LinkedIn, but the building is moving

NOTE: We will be at a NEW location for this talk: 580 Mary, Sunnyvale, CA


RSVP here:

https://www.meetup.com/BAyPIGgies/events/228274916/


Abstract

Ever want to know what is behind the "Internet of Things" hype? Back in
Feburary, I wanted to as well, so I embarked on a side project to learn
more. This talk is the story of my journey, using, of course, my favorite
programming langauge, Python.


In this talk, I will take you through my project, a lighting replay system.
I captured light sensor data (using Micropython and the ESP8266) in three
rooms of my house. I then analyzed the data using Jupyter notebooks, Numpy,
Pandas, and Scikit-learn. My goal was to replay realistic light usage when
my family and I are out of town. After exploring several machine learning
approaches, I settled on Hidden Markov Models (using Hmmlearn). I now have
a simple application that runs on my Raspberry Pi and controls Phillips Hue
lights based on the learned model. Along the way, I played around with
hardware for the first time since college and co-developed an open source
data filtering framework, called AntEvents (joint work with Rupak Majumdar
of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems).


Speaker

Jeff Fischer has held developer, management, and research roles in small
and large companies. He currently is consulting for a commercial research
laboratory, advising them on how to spin-off a healthcare IoT project.
Previously, he was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Quaddra Software, a
file analytics startup. He has a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA, focused
on programming languages and software verification. His current technical
interests include IoT analytics, distributed systems, and programming
languages.


Jeff first came across Python in the last century, and liked it much better
than the alternative he was using at the time (which seemed to resemble
modem line noise). He has tried to work Python into his projects ever
since. He is the co-organizer of BayPiggies and looks forward to the great
talks and the enthusiastic audience at our monthly meetings.
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