Schedule - Day 1
| 8:00 | Breakfast & Registration | 1 hour |
| 9:00 |
Opening Remarks and Morning Keynote
Ideshini Naidoo |
1 hour 30 mins |
| 10:30 |
Procedural Generation for fun and profit
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) Luis E. Pérez Estrada |
25 mins |
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Debugging Jupyter Notebooks
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Maria Khalusova |
25 mins | |
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Using word2vec to see what CBC 'knows' about Canada
PyData Track (Round Room) Roberto Rocha |
25 mins | |
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Do-it-yourself Natural Language Processing for makers
Tutorial (Clipper Room) Susan Li |
25 mins | |
| 11:15 |
Move Fast, and Break things, Deploying the Largest Python Site in the World.
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) Alvaro Leiva |
25 mins |
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RAPIDS and cuDF: accelerating DataFrames on GPUs
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Ashwin Srinath and Keith Kraus |
25 mins | |
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Understanding autistic children using BioSensors and Python!
PyData Track (Round Room) Niharika Krishnan |
25 mins | |
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Do-it-yourself Natural Language Processing for makers
Tutorial (Clipper Room) Susan Li |
25 mins | |
| 12:00 |
Handling datetimes without losing your head
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) Valery Calderon |
25 mins |
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A Pythonista’s intro to Kafka: no, it’s not like Celery
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Tom Aratyn |
25 mins | |
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Data visualization with Altair: survey data case study
PyData Track (Round Room) Stephen Childs |
25 mins | |
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Open Space
Tutorial (Clipper Room) |
25 mins | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | 1 hour |
| 13:30 |
Fantastic anti-patterns and where to find them: pinpointing performance bottlenecks
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) Samuel Dion-Girardeau |
25 mins |
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Building a CMS in Python with Django+Wagtail
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Tyler Savery |
25 mins | |
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Modelling user journeys with Keras and neural networks
PyData Track (Round Room) Jennifer Nguyen |
25 mins | |
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TBD
Tutorial (Clipper Room) TBD |
25 mins | |
| 14:15 |
The zen of Python teams
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) Adrienne Lowe |
25 mins |
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Rust accelerated Pythons
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Dorian Pula |
25 mins | |
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Anomaly detection in the wild
PyData Track (Round Room) Tim Hahn |
25 mins | |
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TBD
Tutorial (Clipper Room) TBD |
25 mins | |
| 15:00 |
How to build bulletproof integrations
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) John P. Kennedy |
25 mins |
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From hot mess to information, or why you should spend more time processing your data
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Serena Peruzzo |
25 mins | |
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Genetic algorithms: making errors do all the work
PyData Track (Round Room) Raman Tehlan |
25 mins | |
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Open Space
Tutorial (Clipper Room) |
25 mins | |
| 15:25 | Afternoon Break | 35 mins |
| 16:00 |
pyblitzdg: the future of physical model development has arrived
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) Derek Steinmoeller |
10 mins |
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Building municipal web apps with Python
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Cody Brown |
10 mins | |
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Algorithmic bias in machine learning
PyData Track (Round Room) Jill Cates |
10 mins | |
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Query better with Django ORM
Tutorial (Clipper Room) Mafinar Khan |
10 mins | |
| 16:20 |
Growing plants without soil using Python!
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) Manav Mehra |
10 mins |
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Coding with an accent
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Seonaid Lee |
10 mins | |
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Forecasting and observing airfare trends using Python and neural networks
PyData Track (Round Room) Anuj Menta |
10 mins | |
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Query better with Django ORM
Tutorial (Clipper Room) Mafinar Khan |
10 mins | |
| 16:40 |
Narrative-focused video games development with Ren'Py, an open source engine
Talk room #1 (Concert Hall) Susan Chang |
10 mins |
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Iron Pythonista
Talk room #2 (Sky Room) Josh Weissbock |
10 mins | |
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Voice recognition using python and deep learning
PyData Track (Round Room) Cesar Osorio |
10 mins | |
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Query better with Django ORM
Tutorial (Clipper Room) Mafinar Khan |
10 mins | |
| 17:00 |
Evening Keynote
Huda Idrees |
1 hour |