[Chicago] [ANN] ChiPy January: Dev Bootcamp this Thursday 9th at 7pm

[Brian Ray]

Stay warm, come to ChiPy...  This month's meeting is brought to you by Dev
Bootcamp, an immersive 9-week computer programming program.
http://devbootcamp.com/   Food and Drink Provided! Free and open to
everyone ( no prior Python or Programming experience required). Bring a
friend.

RSVP -> http://chipy.org

Dev Bootcamp
351 West Hubbard St. Suite #701
Chicago IL 60654

When: Jan. 9, 2014, 7 p.m.

Topics:


   - *Lexical Graphs with Natural Language Processing using NLTK*
   (0:30:00 Minutes)
   By: Brian Ray
   Brian will talk about his experiences using Python and NLTK
   http://nltk.org/ to run language comparisons to generate lexical
   difference graphs like the one mentioned in the "Lexical Distance Among the
   Languages of Europe" article. http://bit.ly/1cS46Ba The focus will be on
   the NLTK and how its internals work to process a language. This talk will
   be his best one ever.
   - *Garbage Collection w/ Ref. Cycles*
   (0:30:00 Minutes)
   By: Aaron Brady
   Reference counting is very useful but it has an odd problem. We employ a
   technique from graphs to approach it. The solution works but it's a bit
   slow.
   - *There were 986 roadway fatalities in Illinois in 2013. Where's the
   data?*
   (0:20:00 Minutes)
   By: Nick Bennett
   Seen on garish LED roadway signs all around Chicago on New Year's Eve,
   2013: 986 TRAFFIC DEATHS IN 2013. It leads to many questions: On what
   roads? When did the accidents happen? What do we do now? I'm scared to
   drive. I will talk about purging my fears by finding the data to answer
   some of those questions.
http://tothebeat.github.io/fatal-car-crashes/This talk will involve
PythonAnywhere, IPython, a module that's not even on
   PyPi (dbfpy), searching for and finding open government data, CartoDB,
   Google Fusion Tables, csv, and maybe Pandas. Rest assured, there will be no
   graphic photos.

This will be our warmest meeting ever!

RSVP Today http://chipy.org

-- 
Brian Ray
@brianray
(773) 669-7717
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