[CentralOH] March Monthly Meetup ONLINE Tonight!

[Jeff Borisch]

New zoom link from Guy for tonight's meeting. Previous link expired.

https://zoom.us/j/999432195?pwd=VVEwUVFxWkVhT2MwM2ovWFFuZzVGZz09

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:30 PM Greg Back <greg at gregback.net> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> Sorry for the late notice, but this month's evening meetup WILL be
> happening, and will be ONLINE, using Zoom! If you didn't already get the
> notification from Meetup.com, the details are here:
> https://www.meetup.com/Central-Ohio-Python-Users-Group/events/269747480/,
> on http://www.cohpy.org/, and included below.
>
> Hope to see you (virtually) there,
>
> Greg
>
> -----
>
> Guy Royse will be talking about "Understanding Probabilistic Data
> Structures with 112,092 UFO Sightings"
>
> Guy likes weird stuff—UFOs, Bigfoot, peanut butter and bologna on
> toast—maybe you do too? As far as the third bullet point, well, that’s how
> many sightings he has.
>
> Now, if you’re like most developers, you probably have no idea what
> probabilistic data structures are. In fact, Guy did a super-scientific poll
> on Twitter and found that out of 119 participants, 58% had never heard of
> them and 22% had heard the term but nothing more. He wondered what
> percentage of that 22% heard the term for the first time in the poll. We’re
> a literal-minded lot at times.
>
> In this talk, we’ll briefly go over some common probabilistic data
> structures; dive deep into a couple (Bloom Filter, MinHash, and Top-K); and
> show a running application that makes use of Top-K to analyze the most
> commonly used words in all 112,092 of his UFO sightings.
>
> When we’re done, you’ll be ready to start using some of these structures
> in your own applications. And, if you use the UFO data, maybe you’ll
> discover that the truth really is out there.
>
> This group is only as good as its inputs. Please consider helping out.
>
> 6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat and drink (your own food and beverages)
>
> 6:30 p.m.: Announcements followed by Presentation
>
> 8:00 p.m.: Hard Stop for Presentation (might hang around for more
> socializing)
>
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>
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