tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62638118895786433882024-02-07T23:40:18.642-08:00PYthon Piedmont Triad User GroupFrancois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-83705233891997419302021-08-31T05:41:00.002-07:002021-08-31T05:41:20.515-07:00Lunch and learn series<h2 style="text-align: left;">PYPTUG Lunch and Learn</h2><p><br /></p><p>In order to help those starting out with python, we are starting a lunch and learn series. You can see upcoming lunch and learns on our meetup page:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/">https://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-63605649073572665762018-12-11T19:32:00.001-08:002018-12-11T19:32:16.569-08:00PYPTUG Monthly Meeting (December): Training Tools - Utilizing Jupyter Notebooks<h2 class="text--sectionTitle text--bold padding--bottom" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #2e3e48; fill: rgb(46, 62, 72); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 500 !important; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: var(--responsive-space); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; stroke: transparent; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (Deceber 18th 2018) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also a tool that no expert would do without.</span><br /><br /><b>Main talk: </b>Training Tools - Utilizing Jupyter Notebooks<br />presented by Joan Pharr<br /><br /><b>bio:</b><br /><span class="il" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Joan</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> </span>Pharr is currently a Lead Business Analyst at Valassis Digital. On the side she seeks to save the world with math, facts and a penchant for comedy. Collaborating with others to solve problems and share stories is one of the her favorite aspects of PyData.</span><br /><br /><b>Abstract:</b><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
Jupyter Notebooks can be a great tool for teaching and learning in a corporate setting. In this talk I’ll cover three ways I’ve incorporated Jupyter Notebooks into my daily routine:</div>
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(1) Using notebooks as templates with information, questions and examples for training new team members. </div>
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(2) Collecting notebooks to share code for infrequent requests across our team. </div>
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(3) Using notebooks to try new techniques, play with new packages, and quickly test new code.</div>
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Lightning talks!</h3>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were provided here, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Tuesday, Decemberr 18th 2018</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Meeting starts at 6:00PM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Wake Forest University, close to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Manchester Hall</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">room: Manchester 241</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109</span></div>
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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See also this <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a> and also the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-26095185914130640132018-10-26T07:28:00.001-07:002018-10-26T07:29:39.089-07:00PYPTUG Monthly Meeting (October): Altair, Ansible and more<h2 class="text--sectionTitle text--bold padding--bottom" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #2e3e48; fill: rgb(46, 62, 72); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500 !important; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--responsive-space); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; stroke: transparent;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (October 30th 2018) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also a tool that no expert would do without.</span><br />
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<b>Main talk: </b>Altair<br />
presented by Martin DeWitt<br />
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<b>bio:</b><br />
Originally from Winston-Salem, Martin DeWitt is a former assistant professor of physics, who frequently used Python and IPython notebooks to teach both introductory and upper-level physics courses and labs. He is currently transitioning to a career in data science.<br />
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<b>Abstract:</b><br />
Altair is a statistical visualization Python library designed to facilitate the exploration of data by making it easy to generate interactive web-based visualizations. Using Pandas dataframes as data sources, Altair's API provides functionality to transform data (bin, sort, filter, and aggregate) and produce common graphs including histograms, line charts, scatter plots, and heatmaps. Graphs can be made interactive with features like panning, zooming, and filtering by mouse pointer selections. Most of the aspects of generating the visualizations -- axes, scales, legends, and interactive features -- are handled automatically, only requiring the user to employ Altair's concise declarative syntax to specify the connections between data columns in the dataframe and the various properties of the graph (axes, color, size, etc). With very few lines of code, you can generate rich, interactive, and portable web-based graphs.<br />
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In this presentation, I will first briefly introduce importing and viewing data using Pandas. I will then demonstrate some of the features of Altair for transforming data and creating both static and interactive graphs. We will work through a number of examples, step-by-step, from importing the data to a finalized graph. I intend for you to code along with me, so please be sure to bring your laptop.<br />
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For those who are interested in how the magic happens, Altair is based on Vega/Vega-Lite, which is a high-level grammar for producing interactive visualizations. "With Vega, visualizations are described in JSON, and generate interactive views using either HTML5 Canvas or SVG."(<a class="link" href="http://vega.github.io/" style="color: #00a2c7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; fill: rgb(0, 162, 199); stroke: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;" target="__blank" title="http://vega.github.io/">http://vega.github.io/</a>) Altair works by taking specifications from the user through Python objects, generating the proper JSON code, and then using Vega to add a Canvas or SVG-based visualization to a web page. There are also renderers that allow Vega visualizations to be displayed in IPython and Jupyter notebooks.</div>
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Lightning talks!</h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were provided here, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Tuesday, October 30th 2018</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Meeting starts at 6:00PM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Wake Forest University, close to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Manchester Hall</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">room: Manchester 241</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109</span></div>
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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See also this <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a> and also the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Don't forget to sign up to our user group mailing list:</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (September 25th 2018) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also a tool that no expert would do without.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Main talk: <span style="background-color: #e6ecf0; color: #14171a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction to Packet Manipulation with Scapy</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">by Samuel Mitchell</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><h4 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="background-color: #e6ecf0; color: #14171a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scapy is a very powerful framework written in Python that allows the forging and manipulation of packets. It's a swiss army knife of sorts for dealing with capturing, interacting, and manipulating packets down to the packet frame itself. It sees a lot of usage in the security community as a result but can also be used by anyone who needs to reverse engineer odd/unique protocols, QA test products at the lowest levels of the OSI layers, or come up with or test your own communication protocol.
This will be an intro to the usage and capabilities of scapy targetted at anyone familiar with the basics of networking at the OSI layer and basic Python programming.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #e6ecf0; color: #14171a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Samuel Mitchell lived a former life as a sysadmin and in the DevOps field. In his current life, he works as an Offensive Security Researcher/Tester for a large financial institution. He's also a husband/father of three kids, and dreams of some day finishing one of his multitude of side projects.</span></div>
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Lightning talks!</h3>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were provided here, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
When:</h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Tuesday, September 25th 2018</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Meeting starts at 6:00PM</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Where:</h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Wake Forest University, close to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Manchester Hall</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">room: Manchester 241</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">
<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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See also this <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a> and also the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-71639136359017713332018-06-17T14:02:00.004-07:002018-06-17T14:02:46.260-07:00PYPTUG Monthly meeting: Wrangling Geospatial Data<h2 class="text--sectionTitle text--bold padding--bottom">
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Come
join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (June 26th 2018) to learn more
about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the
language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other
end, it is also a tool that no expert would do without.<br /><br />The meeting will start with a back to basics introduction. <br />
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Then on to the main talk:<br />
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<b>"</b><b>ArcPy:<span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">Wrangling</span><span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">Geospatial</span><span> </span>Da</b>ta with Python<b>"</b></h3>
<br />by Laura Tateosian<br />
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Abstract:</h4>
ArcPy, the Python interface for ArcGIS Desktop/ArcGIS Pro, allows you to
work with geographic datasets and invoke the powerful tools that have
been developed by ESRI for analyzing and visualizing<span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">geospatial</span>.
This talk will provide an overview of the functionality exposed by the
ArcPy API and demonstrate how these functionalities can be invoked.
Python can be used to invoke any of the built-in tools for processing<span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">geospatial</span><span> </span>data (e.g., finding buffer zones to identify streams near proposed highways, intersecting<span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">geospatial</span><span> </span>data
layers to find overlap of historical habitat and urban sprawl,
calculating changes in landscapes with raster algebra, and so forth).
Attendees will learn how to interpret the ArcPy help documentation and
how Python can be used to call geoprocessing tools, to programmatically
manage proprietary GIS data formats (list and describe the data), read
and modify proprietary data formats such as shapefiles with arcpy, work
with ArcGIS map documents, generate custom ArcGIS GUIs. <br />
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Bio:</h4>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="il">Laura</span> G. Tateosian is a professor at the<span> </span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://cnr.ncsu.edu/geospatial/&source=gmail&ust=1529355163114000&usg=AFQjCNHXCYakuqVIaOAMBKtBPAuwJUaiiQ" href="https://cnr.ncsu.edu/geospatial/" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Center for<span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">Geospatial</span><span> </span>Analytics</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span> </span>at
North Carolina State University where she leads an active research
program in geovisualization and recently authored a textbook on<span> </span></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319183978&source=gmail&ust=1529355163114000&usg=AFQjCNFKAMdjIxS7HTU36PDCqh3AVtq_Yw" href="https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319183978" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">Python for ArcGIS</a></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.
Her lab works with geoparsing, eye trackers, and open source web
mapping and visualization tools to investigate plant disease spread and
human trafficking and to develop innovative digital reading
environments. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics from Towson University,
her M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma, and her Ph.D.
in computer science from North Carolina State University. She teaches
Python<span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">Geospatial</span><span> </span>Programming and Geovisualization in the<span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">Geospatial</span><span> </span>Analytics Ph.D. and the Master’s in<span> </span><span class="m_-7619090564959092808gmail-il">Geospatial</span><span> </span>Information Science and Technology.<span> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">She has<span> </span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://pankajlaura.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1529355163114000&usg=AFQjCNHHI6vP92v21q4IHq7jqLnmgqvw5w" href="http://pankajlaura.blogspot.com/" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">traveled extensively</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span> </span>and likes to body surf.</span></span><br />
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Lightning talks!</h3>
<br />We will have
some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration.
If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were provided here,
if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are
working on.<br /><br />
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When:</h3>
Tuesday, June 26th 2018<br />Meeting starts at 6:00PM<br /><br />
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Where:</h3>
Wake Forest University, close to Polo Rd and University Parkway:<br />Manchester Hall<br />room: Manchester 241<br />Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109<br />
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general
parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces,
faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus.
Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register
for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><b>RSVP on meetup:</b></span> <a href="https://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/ddlvxgyxjbjc/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> https://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/ddlvxgyxjbjc/</span></span></a>Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-86034571199508330702018-05-23T12:34:00.001-07:002018-05-23T12:34:01.769-07:00PYPTUG monthly meeting: Exploratory Visualization of Data and Text<section class="section"><div class="chunk event-description--wrapper">
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Come
join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (May 29th 2018) to learn more
about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the
language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other
end, it is also a tool that no expert would do without.<br /><br />The meeting will start with a back to basics introduction on lists, arrays and other similar data types.<br /><br />Then on to the main talk:<br />
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<b>"Exploratory Visualization of Data and Text"</b></h3>
<br />by Francois Dion<br />
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Abstract:</h4>
What
can you learn from visualizing your data? What techniques should you
use for a given scenario? If you've missed the presentation at the
Renaissance Computing Institute last month, you have another opportunity
to learn about various tools. As an extra bonus we will touch a little
bit of machine learning.<br /><br />
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Lightning talks!</h3>
<br />We will have
some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration.
If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were provided here,
if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are
working on.<br /><br />
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When:</h3>
Tuesday,May 29th 2018<br />Meeting starts at 6:00PM<br /><br />
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Where:</h3>
Wake Forest University, close to Polo Rd and University Parkway:<br />Manchester Hall<br />room: Manchester 241<br />Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general
parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces,
faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus.
Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register
for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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</section>Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-29403102792363111002018-04-14T04:30:00.002-07:002018-04-14T04:30:33.905-07:00PYPTUG Monthly Meeting April 2018: Stock selection and automated trading<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (April 24th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2018</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18.2px;">)
to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools.
Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed
before, and at the other end, it is also the tool that no expert
would do without.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small; line-height: 18.2px;">Meeting will start at 6</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.2px;">:00pm</b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.2px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small; line-height: 18.2px;">We will open on an </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.2px;">Intro</b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.2px;"> to PYPTUG and on how to </span><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.2px;">get started</b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.2px;"> with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News from the community.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small; line-height: 18.2px;">This will be followed by the main talk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small; line-height: 18.48px;"> Using Python to Push Stock Selection information to you and automate trading</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small; line-height: 18.48px;">By: </span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small; line-height: 18.48px;"> Ken Hogue</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small; line-height: 18.48px;">Bio:</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small; line-height: 18.48px;">I have been using Python for several years specifically for stock research, backtesting strategies and trading automation. Recently I have started using python notebooks for documenting research.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The talk will cover three main topics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
first is the use of python to push information to you for consistent
evaluation. Customized stock charting and stock screening displayed on
charts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The second area is the use of Python for lights out automated Forex trading. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The third area is the use of python notebooks for machine learning and trading research.</span></span><br />
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Lightning talks! </h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We
will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute
duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When:</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Tuesday, April 24th 2018</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span></div>
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<span class="pp-place-title"><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Manchester Hall</a></span><br />
room: Manchester 241<span class="pp-place-title"> </span></div>
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<span class="pp-headline-item pp-headline-address" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109</span></div>
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general
parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces,
faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus.
Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register
for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><b>RSVP on meetup:</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/249204224/"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/249204224/</span></a></span></div>
Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-21939661311788707012018-03-22T14:44:00.002-07:002018-03-22T14:50:07.185-07:00PYPTUG Monthly Meeting (March): Python 3, Klein and more<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (March 27th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2018</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">)
to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools.
Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed
before, and at the other end, it is also the tool that no expert
would do without.</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Meeting will start at 6</span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">:00pm</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">We will open on an </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Intro</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> to PYPTUG and on how to </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">get started</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News from the community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Then on to the main talk. Philip Semanchuk will help us to migrate to Python 3. We'll also learn about Klein in the lightning talks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.670588); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;">Main Talk: </span>How to Plan to Migrate to Python 3</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Philip Semanchuk of PySpoken LLC</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Bio:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I
started writing BASIC on a TRS-80 and have been building software ever
since using everything from C to Visual Basic to Python. For the past
several years, I’ve been a freelancer focused on Python, especially
where it meets C and other compiled languages but also for Django work.
Some of my clients are Fortune 50 companies and others have just a
handful of employees.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In
the past, I have given talks at PyCarolinas, PyOhio, PyData, and the
Triangle Python Users Group. This is my first opportunity to speak to
the Python Piedmont Triad UG, and I’m grateful for the invitation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Currently
I’m using Python to perform etymology-focused lexical analysis. It’s a
subject I know very little about, so I’m glad NLTK exists to hold my
hand! Later this year I hope to use Python to collect data from a
photovoltaic solar system that’s installed where I live.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You can learn more about me at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://PySpoken.com&source=gmail&ust=1487453202572000&usg=AFQjCNE646h-XAicOuq9WO9R7ILDm4emRg" href="http://pyspoken.com/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">http://PySpoken.com</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> where I also have a blog (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://blog.PySpoken.com&source=gmail&ust=1487453202573000&usg=AFQjCNEIJRPreQ4puo0Rln6YuiOL__RbrQ" href="http://blog.pyspoken.com/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">http://blog.PySpoken.com</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Abstract:</span></div>
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Python 2 will no longer be supported past 2020, yet many organizations
still haven't made the switch to Python 3. This talk is for anyone
facing a 2-to-3 migration that they'd like to feel more confident about.
Attendees will leave with the outline of a migration plan, some
suggested focus areas, a knowledge of helpful tools, and links to
resources they can use after the talk.<br />
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Detailed Abstract</h3>
Many organizations haven't yet made the switch to Python 3. Time is
running out for them since <i>Python 2 will no longer be supported past
2020</i>. Organizations with larger projects to migrate will need to start
very soon in order to meet the deadline.<br />
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Migrating from 2 to 3 can seem overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be
if you <i>make a plan, take it step by step, and use the right tools</i>.
What's more, there's a great deal you can do immediately (while still in
Python 2) to make your code more compatible with Python 3.<br />
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This talk is for anyone facing a 2-to-3 migration that they'd like to
feel more confident about.</i> The talk will discuss five areas of focus
-- choosing a Python 3 version, identifying test gaps, reviewing
dependencies, prepping one's code for Python 3, and the actual
switchover. I'll discuss strengths and weaknesses of the tool
`caniusepython3` for assessing dependencies. I'll also go into a fair
amount of detail on Python's tool `2to3`, including how (and when) to
use it effectively.<br />
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**Attendees will leave confident that the migration is manageable.**
They'll have the outline of a plan, some specific areas on which to
focus, a knowledge of helpful tools, and links to resources they can use
after the talk.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span></div>
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Lightning talks! </h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We
will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute
duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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We already have a talk lined up on Klein by Chris Sheppard</div>
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When</h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, March 27<b>t</b></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">h</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2018</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Meeting starts at 6:00PM</span><br />
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Where</h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span></div>
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<span class="pp-place-title"><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Manchester Hall</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general
parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces,
faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus.
Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register
for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-16330753241276057092018-02-25T10:48:00.002-08:002018-02-25T10:52:57.127-08:00PYPTUG February Monthly Meeting: VPython (3D Programming for Ordinary Mortals)<div style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (<b>February 27th</b></span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">)
to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools.
Python is the ideal language to learn if you've never programmed
before, and at the other end, it is also a tool that no expert would do
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VPython: 3D Programming for Ordinary Mortals </h4>
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The Python module vpython makes it remarkably easy to write programs
that generate navigable real-time 3D animations, as a side effect of
computations. This is in contrast to most 3D graphics libraries, which
require as a prerequisite very high computing skills. VPython programs
can run in standard Python environments such as IDLE, Spyder, or a
Jupyter notebook. They can also run in mobile devices, thanks to the use
of the RapydScript-NG Python-to-JavaScript transpiler. Previous short
presentations on VPython focused on its architecture and implementation.
This presentation will instead be in the form of a tutorial on how to
use VPython. No programming background other than basic Python is
required. At <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://glowscript.org&source=gmail&ust=1519668091485000&usg=AFQjCNGXHNXdXFvnV6qlSeDE0AAZeqxBlg" href="http://glowscript.org/" target="_blank">glowscript.org</a> click "Example programs" to see a variety of applications, which run in your browser. At <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://vpython.org&source=gmail&ust=1519668091485000&usg=AFQjCNHP1xGsa2Wbwg92ZgHze4bN4MWTgQ" href="http://vpython.org/" target="_blank">vpython.org</a> are instructions on installing the vpython module.</div>
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Bruce Sherwood is an NCSU emeritus professor of physics and a
Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association of
Physics Teachers, and the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. He is currently the main developer of VPython. He is co-author
with Ruth Chabay of the introductory physics textbook "Matter &
Interactions" for science and engineering college students (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://matterandinteractions.org&source=gmail&ust=1519668091485000&usg=AFQjCNEuk0p-V3GwcPFDOxmCIx4jaKjT3w" href="http://matterandinteractions.org/" target="_blank">matterandinteractions.org</a>).
In North Carolina, this textbook is currently used at NCSU, High Point
University, UNC-Greensboro, Wake Forest University, and Guilford
College.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday February 27 2018</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general
parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces,
faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus.
Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register
for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Don't forget to sign up to our user group mailing list:</span></div>
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<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">It is the only step required to become a PYPTUG member.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Meetup:</span><br />
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</span>Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-38068906019444744062018-01-23T11:50:00.000-08:002018-01-23T11:55:59.468-08:00PYPTUG Monthly meeting: 10 million and counting<div style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">
Come join us for our first meeting of 2018, on Tuesday January 30th at 6pm. We are starting the year with a bang as we'll have some prizes to give away:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Official Raspberry Pi Beginners book with a Raspberry Pi Zero W computer!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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And of course we will have food. So please <b>RSVP</b>! (see bottom of page). The main presentation is going to be a little bit different.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Main Presentation:</span><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.67); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">10 million and counting</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Abstract:</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.67); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span class="il" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">A pre-teen girl, an infosec professional, a devops practitioner, a Japanese literature student, a budding data scientist, a multimedia artist, an IoT entrepreneur, a museum curator, a musician and a machine learning expert. What do they have in common?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">They, along with several million others, are Raspberry Pi users. A very inexpensive<span style="background-color: #999999;"></span> ($5-$35 depending on the model) computer that has been used to build everything from </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">musical instruments, to robot farmers, to large computer clusters, to high altitude balloons, to 3d scanner, or just to be a learning playground for a new software technology or programming language.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Never heard of it before, or just curious how to get started? Don't miss the presentation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Using the Raspberry Pi already? You'll find out what else you can do with it. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Running a business and wondering how this fits in? You'll find out.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Already an expert and built a cluster with a dozen of them? Bring your project and show it off.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Bio:</span><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.67); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.67); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span class="il" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span>Francois Dion <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: small;">is the founder and Chief Data Scientist of Dion Research LLC, specializing in analytics, data science, IoT and visualization.</span></span></span><br />
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For the past 6 year, he also has given talks, workshops and presentations on the Raspberry Pi in schools, community colleges and universities, at Python, Data Science and Linux conferences and at professional associations meetings and at various companies. He has built open source teaching projects based on the Raspberry Pi, such as at PiQuiz Machine and the Pi-A-Sketch, both featured on the official Raspberry Pi Foundation website. He's also integrated then as payloads for High Altitude Balloon launches.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, <b>January 30</b></span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> <b>2018</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span><br />
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room: Manchester 241<span class="pp-place-title"> </span></div>
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<span class="pp-headline-item pp-headline-address" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109</span></div>
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-65606276008210729132017-10-10T18:25:00.002-07:002017-10-10T18:25:30.565-07:00PYPTUG Monthly meeting: Introduction to AWS Lambda<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (<b>October 24th</b></span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">)
to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools.
Python is the ideal language to learn if you've never programmed
before, and at the other end, it is also a tool that no expert would do
without.</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><div style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Main Talk:</span><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.67); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms","trebuchet","verdana",sans-serif;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms","trebuchet","verdana",sans-serif;"> Introduction to AWS Lambda"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms","trebuchet","verdana",sans-serif;">by Andres Silva</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Abstract:</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.67); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms","trebuchet","verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span class="il" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms","trebuchet","verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span class="il" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial",sans-serif;">AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to
events and automatically manages the compute resources for you, making
it easy to build applications that respond quickly to new information.
This presentation will help understand how the AWS Lambda platform to
build python applications for the cloud.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><span class="il" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><span class="il" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Bio:</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.67); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span class="il" style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span>Andres Silva is a Senior Technical Account Manager for AWS Enterprise
Support. He has been working with AWS technology for more than 6 years.
Andres works with Enterprise customers to design, implement and support
complex cloud infrastructures.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><b>When:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, <b>October 24</b></span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> <b>2017</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Meeting starts at 6:00PM</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span><br />
<span class="pp-place-title"><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Manchester Hall</a></span></div>
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room: Manchester 241<span class="pp-place-title"> </span></div>
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<span class="pp-headline-item pp-headline-address" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109</span></div>
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general
parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces,
faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus.
Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register
for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-92163768679790971682017-09-12T11:12:00.000-07:002017-09-19T08:48:13.845-07:00PYPTUG monthly meeting: Plotly, dash and company<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (September 19th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the ideal language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also a tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">There are many visualization packages available out there, each best suited to specific scenarios. In the past several years, I've covered Matplotlib, Seaborn, Vincent, ggplot, 3d visualizations through matplotlib, D3.js and mpld3 and Bokeh. In this presentation we will cover plotly (for javascript, R and Python) and related packages and when it makes sense to use it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Francois Dion is the founder and Chief Data Scientist of Dion Research LLC, specializing in analytics, data science, IoT and visualization. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">He is the author of several open source software, such as stemgraphic (<a href="http://www.stemgraphic.org/">www.stemgraphic.org</a>), the founder of the Python user group for the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina (<a href="http://www.pyptug.org/">www.pyptug.org</a>) and mentors various groups in Python, R and analytics at large. You might have run across his multiple part series on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ex-libris-data-scientist-part-i-francois-dion">LinkedIn</a> on data science books, including <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ex-libris-data-scientist-part-v-visualization-francois-dion">part V</a> on Visualization.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><b>Please note, this meeting will be one week early in the month compared to our normal schedule:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, September <b>19t</b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">h</b><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">It is the only step required to become a PYPTUG member.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (June 27th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the ideal language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></h3>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, June 27<b>t</b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">h</b><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-87894737026119849772017-05-17T04:34:00.000-07:002017-05-17T04:34:01.855-07:00PYPTUG Monthly meeting "Seeking Exotics" May 30th<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (May 30th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the ideal language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>When</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-91561136901686756712017-04-18T10:22:00.000-07:002017-04-18T10:39:39.028-07:00PYPTUG Monthly Meeting "Meet Eliza" April 25th 2017<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (April 25th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></h3>
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When I was a child, I spoke with Eliza at a science museum, and everything changed from that moment on. Who was Eliza? Perhaps you haven't heard of Eliza. You will be able to meet Dr. Eliza and exchange some thoughts with her.<br />
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After meeting Eliza, we will discuss Artificial Intelligence. Ever wondered what it means? Can you trust AI? If AI can make works of art? Poems? What about legal ramifications? Should I confide in Siri or Cortana? What does an artificial neuron look like? Do androids dream of electric sheep? If you've asked yourself one of these questions, then you'll be glad to attend this presentation and discussion. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration-line: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-73361336752897539432017-02-17T13:47:00.000-08:002017-02-17T13:47:51.589-08:00PYPTUG Monthly Meeting Feb. 28th (new python stuff, c, c++ and fortran)<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (February 28th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Then on to the main talk. Philip Semanchuk will help us to be polyglot programmers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;">Main Talk: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Python, C, C++, and Fortran Relationship Status: It’s Not That Complicated</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Philip Semanchuk of PySpoken LLC</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I started writing BASIC on a TRS-80 and have been building software ever since using everything from C to Visual Basic to Python. For the past several years, I’ve been a freelancer focused on Python, especially where it meets C and other compiled languages but also for Django work. Some of my clients are Fortune 50 companies and others have just a handful of employees.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In the past, I have given talks at PyCarolinas, PyOhio, PyData, and the Triangle Python Users Group. This is my first opportunity to speak to the Python Piedmont Triad UG, and I’m grateful for the invitation.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Currently I’m using Python to perform etymology-focused lexical analysis. It’s a subject I know very little about, so I’m glad NLTK exists to hold my hand! Later this year I hope to use Python to collect data from a photovoltaic solar system that’s installed where I live.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">One of Python’s strengths is that it can use code written in compiled languages like C, Fortran and C++.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This talk gives an overview of your many options for getting Python to call and exchange data with code written in a compiled language. The goal is to make attendees aware of choices they may not know they have, and when to prefer one over another.</span></div>
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Lightning talks! </h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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Some are already lined up.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, February 28<b>t</b></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">h</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2017</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Meeting starts at 6:00PM</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-42194686720277896202016-11-21T11:29:00.001-08:002016-11-21T11:29:10.649-08:00PYPTUG Monthly meeting November 29 2016 (Patient Record Deduplication, machine learning lightning talks)<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (November 29th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2016</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">We will open on an </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Intro</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> to PYPTUG and on how to </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">get started</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News from the community.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;">Main Talk: </span><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; font-size: 12.8px; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Scalable Patients Records De-Duplication using machine learning</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Louisville </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Data Scientist at Inmar</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Simple matching to identify duplicates in patient records produces numerous errors for various reasons. To improve the identification of duplicates, we built an incremental model on top of an existing machine learning based Python package. We made the model updatable and scalable to accommodate an ever increasing patient record file.</span></div>
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Lightning talks! </h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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Some are already lined up.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, November 29<b>t</b></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">h</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2016</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Meeting starts at 6:00PM</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="pp-place-title"><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Manchester Hall</a></span><br />room: Manchester 241<span class="pp-place-title"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Don't forget to sign up to our user group mailing list:</span></div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-88812992548324505912016-09-19T12:58:00.000-07:002016-09-20T17:25:45.398-07:00PYPTUG Monthly meeting September 27th 2016 (Just bring Glue)<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (September 27th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2016</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Rob Agle is a software engineer at Inmar, where he works on the high-availability REST APIs powering the organization's digital promotions network. His technical interests include application and network security, machine learning and natural language processing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">It has never been easier for developers to create simple-yet-powerful data-driven or data-informed tools. Through case studies, we'll explore a few projects that use a number of open source libraries or modules in concert. Next, we'll cover strategies for learning these new tools. Finally, we wrap up with pitfalls to keep in mind when gluing powerful things together quickly.</span></div>
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Lightning talks! </h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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When</h4>
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<span class="pp-place-title"><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Manchester Hall</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;"> Map this</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-68020757828835317422016-08-24T15:28:00.001-07:002016-08-24T15:28:42.991-07:00PYPTUG Monthly meeting August 30 2016 (flask-restplus, openstreetmap)<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (August 30th</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2016</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;">Main Talk: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Building a RESTful API with Flask-Restplus and Swagger</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">by Manikandan Ramakrishnan</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">Manikandan Ramakrishnan is a Data Engineer with Inmar Inc.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Building an API and documenting it properly is like having a cake and eating it too. Flask-RESTPlus is a great Flask extension that makes it really easy to build robust REST APIs quickly with minimal setup. With its built in Swagger integration, it is extremely simple to document the endpoints and to enforce request/response models.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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One lightning talk will cover OpenStreetMap</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, August <b>30t</b></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">h</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2016</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Meeting starts at 6:00PM</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span></div>
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<span class="pp-place-title"><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Manchester Hall</a></span><br />room: Manchester 241<span class="pp-place-title"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">See also this </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"> and also the </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-79923099822769216422016-08-16T19:02:00.000-07:002016-08-16T19:02:02.138-07:00Winston Salem Project Night! Autonomous vehicles (#uav), #PyData August 17th<h1 class="text--display3" itemprop="name" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); fill: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; stroke: transparent;">
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Do you have a project you want to show off? Or do you need a second set of eyes on your code? Would you like to hack on an open source project? Perhaps you need help getting a module on a specific platform? Don't have a project but would like to help others or to learn more Python?<br />Whatever the case may be, project nights are your opportunity to get some help or to help others, so bring your laptop (or Raspberry Pi or whatever device that can run Python) and let's get things going.</div>
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We need some help with some work on the Quadcopter. In particular, how to send and receive Smart Bus (FrSky) data from a Raspberry Pi, hardware level conversion etc. Computer vision work needed too. And some of us will also be working on our PyData Carolinas presentations.</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-46606483802707700892016-06-19T08:34:00.000-07:002016-06-19T08:34:25.103-07:00PYPTUG Monthly meeting June 28 2016 (Regular Expressions)<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (June 28th</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2016</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">We will open on an </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Intro</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> to PYPTUG and on how to </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">get started</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;"> with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News from the community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Main Talk: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Splitsville: News from the World of Regular Expressions</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">Rex Dwyer holds the PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and the MS in Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. He was a faculty member at NC State for 13 years, and published an equal number of write-only journal papers. He spent most of the past 15 in bioinformatics at Syngenta Biotechnology Inc. He would like to get paid to be a data scientist. He enjoys building wooden mechanical puzzles and writing about himself in the third person.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">I will survey some old and new features of regular expressions as implemented in the regex module. ( </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex&source=gmail&ust=1463750011005000&usg=AFQjCNF_uk6-Fj4LW9DCeuO8L-KzjGiK5A" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;" target="_blank"></a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex&source=gmail&ust=1463750011005000&usg=AFQjCNF_uk6-Fj4LW9DCeuO8L-KzjGiK5A" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;" target="_blank">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/<wbr></wbr>regex</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;"> ).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">I will concentrate on look-around and split, solving a couple of problems involving biological sequences. </span></div>
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Lightning talks! </h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, June</span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> 28th</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></div>
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-10452199318333576652016-05-05T20:12:00.001-07:002016-05-29T13:53:40.245-07:00PyData Carolinas 2016<h2>
PyData Carolinas 2016</h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (April 26</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">th 2016</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.2px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Main Talk: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><b>Python Fraction, Statistics modules</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">by Francois Dion</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Continuing where we left off last month and the Decimal module, we'll continue into Fraction. We'll then see how the Statistics module that is a part of the standard library of Python 3 support these different data types. You should come out of this talk ready to tackle more advanced modules like StatsModels</span></span></div>
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Lightning talks! </h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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There are already 2 lightning talks that have been confirmed, with some security related part and one on decorators.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Tuesday, </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">April 26th</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"> 2016</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Wake Forest University, </span><nobr style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">close</a></nobr><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:</span></span></div>
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<span class="pp-place-title"><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Manchester Hall</a></span><br />
room: Manchester 241<span class="pp-place-title"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">See also this </span></span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;"> and also the </span></span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4;">And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:</span></span><br />
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-51273226204017191962016-04-18T16:37:00.002-07:002016-04-18T16:37:43.461-07:00#Dataviz #infoviz and other random things: @PYPTUG Project Night Wednesday April 20th<div style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
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Do you have a project you want to show off? Or do you need a second set of eyes on your code? Would you like to hack on an open source project? Perhaps you need help getting a module on a specific platform? Don't have a project but would like to help others or to learn more Python?<br />Whatever the case may be, project nights are your opportunity to get some help or to help others, so bring your laptop (or Raspberry Pi or whatever device that can run Python) and let's get things going</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">As always, plenty of projects to work on, mentoring available and interesting conversations. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.972px; line-height: 22.3608px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4;">This meeting will be on </span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4;">Wednesday, April 20 at 6pm </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.972px; line-height: 22.3608px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4;">in the Dash room at Inmar:</span></span></div>
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Francois Dionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442105466634552900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263811889578643388.post-76594341326434115642016-03-23T20:46:00.001-07:002016-03-23T20:49:28.779-07:00PYPTUG March Monthly meeting (Decimal module, visualization)<h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">PYthon Piedmont Triad User Group meeting</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (March<b> 29</b></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">th 2016</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the perfect language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">What</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">We will open on an </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Intro</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> to PYPTUG and on how to </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">get started</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> with Python, PYPTUG activities and members projects, then on to News from the community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Main Talk: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><b>Python Decimal module</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">David Handy is a software developer with over 15 years Python experience. He works in Inmar's Digital Promotions Network, developing web services and platform APIs. Previous experience includes supercomputers, enterprise web applications, telecom systems, and VLSI design. He has taught several programming seminars for beginners and wrote an introductory programming guide titled "Computer Programming is Fun!". He is a homeschooling dad and volunteer science instructor. In his spare time he tries to get some sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Abstract:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">A tour of Python's decimal module</span></div>
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Lightning talks! </h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">We will have some time for extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration. If you'd like to do one, some suggestions of talks were </span><a href="http://www.pyptug.org/2012/12/python-lightning-talks-ideas.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">provided here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, if you are looking for inspiration. Or talk about a project you are working on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">When</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Tuesday, </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">March 29th</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> 2016</span><br />
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Where</h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Wake Forest University,</span></div>
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<nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.pyptug.org/#" id="FALINK_4_0_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">close</a></nobr> to Polo Rd and University Parkway:<br />
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<span class="pp-place-title"><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Manchester Hall</a></span><br />
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<span class="pp-headline-item pp-headline-address" dir="ltr">Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109</span><br />
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<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"> Map this</a><br />
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See also this <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">campus map (PDF)</a> and also the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map)</a><br />
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And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The official parking policy is:<br />
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"<i><span style="color: #666666;">Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit.</span></i>"</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Mailing List</span></h3>
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Don't forget to sign up to our user group mailing list:<br />
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<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pyptug?hl=en</a><br />
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It is the only step required to become a PYPTUG member.<br />
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RSVP on meetup:<br />
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/229483203/">http://www.meetup.com/PYthon-Piedmont-Triad-User-Group-PYPTUG/events/229483203/</a></div>
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