.. _talks: Talks ===== A list of past PyLadies Vancouver talks. We are always looking for speakers! Please fill in this `form `_ and we'll get back to you. You can also `suggest `_ a talk topic. June 5th, 2019 -------------- - `Introduction to automated testing with pytest `_, Raphael Pierzina - `Mentorship by Trial and Error `_, Monica Raj - `Canada Learning Code X PyLadies `_, Courtney Kutzleb - `Python in Film and Games `_, McKendree Schilthuis May 15, 2019 ------------ Best of PyCon US 2019. We watched and discussed the following talks from PyCon US 2019: - `Releasing the World's Largest Python Site Every 7 Minutes `_, Shuhing Wong - `The Zen of Python Teams `_, Adrienne Lowe - `Supporting Engineers with Mental Health Issues `_, Jenna Quindica - Bonus: `Help! I'm now the leader of our Meetup Group! `_, Faris Chebib March 11, 2019 -------------- Best of Women of Data Science 2019. We watched and discussed several talks from Women of Data Science 2019. Feb 21, 2019 ------------ Best of PyCascades 2018. We watched and discussed the following talks from PyCascades 2018: - `The AST and Me `_, Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel - `Gradual Typing of Production Applications `_, Łukasz Langa October 24, 2018 ---------------- - `The Serverless Birdnest `_, Tay Frost - `The Mood Machine - Building an Emotion Detection system in Python `_, Tanushri Chakravorty - `Open source in Science: How contributability, transparency, and other open source practices can revolutionize scientific research `_, Lisa N. Cao Feb 14, 2018 ------------ - Research and Education with Project Jupyter and Q&A, Fernando Pérez June 12, 2017 ------------- - `If I can become a speaker, so can you `_, Seb Vetter - `Can I use that code? On software licenses `_, Holly Becker - `Python & AWS `_, Julie Sturgeon - Python & Django at Copperleaf, Serena & Anna April 26, 2017 -------------- - Resources for Python beginners, Irene - `F-strings `_, Mariatta Wijaya - `VCR.py `_, Holly Becker - How to build a self-driving mouse, Kiri Nichols - Divided market for x86 computers that run a Microsoft operating system: late 1970s/early 1980s vs 2010s., Brolin Empey January 31, 2017 ---------------- - `Building neural networks with the keras library in Python `_, Julie Sturgeon - `Dial M For Mentor `_, Mariatta Wijaya - Machine Learning and Art, Kiri Nichols - `Image Recognition/Detection Demo `_, Peter Hunt - Beautiful Soup, Sand Ip March 7, 2016 ------------- - Webscraping (BeautifulSoup, PhantomJS/Selenium), Maris Lemba - Experiences at DataPalooza, Lois Patterson - Data analysis with Pandas and Jupyter, Alex Kim - Code Tour, Dan Mayhew - Simulating stochastic systems, Quentin Caudron - Neural networks are (usually) amazing!, Kiri Nichols November 19, 2015 ----------------- - Recruiting women in the software industry, Angela Bortolussi - machine learning with python: sklearn, Kiri Nichols - Recurse Center Review, Caroline Liu - `Python Implementations `_, Snakes all the way down, Holly Becker September 10, 2015 ------------------ **Python Modules Exploration** Interested Pythonistas will present on Python Modules of interest. For inspiration, see the effbot archives: http://effbot.org/zone/ Module presenters: - Larissa Feng - subprocess and/vs os.system - Lewis Nicolle - Kivy - Christie Wilson - itertools - Brett Cannon - importlib July 9, 2015 ------------ **Open Source Project Exploration** Interested pythonistas in the group will give an overview and brief code exploration of open source projects we may be interested in contributing to: - Christie - cpython - Holly - Anki, Django, maybe more! - Rebecca - Possibly a presentation on a project, definitely some open source project advice from the Systers community.