Talks

A list of past PyLadies Vancouver talks.

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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.