[Chicago] ChiPy January 2019 Main Meeting

[Joe Jasinski]

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/>*




-- 
Joe J. Jasinski
www.joejasinski.com
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